What is recorded here
Grave Yard is a graveyard in Cloonard, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the top of a south-facing ridge slope and holds masonry walls, two crosses and headstones from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Tradition identifies it as the burial place of the Mac Dermot Gall.
Situated towards the top of the S-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. A rectangular graveyard (dims 32m E-W; 28m N-S) which is defined by masonry walls which contains 19th and 20th century headstones at the site of church (RO020-019001-). Traditionally, this is the burial place of the Mac Dermot Gall (Mac Dermot 1996, 299). A plain latin cross (RO020-019004-) and a T-shaped cross (RO020-019005-) are in the graveyard.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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