Grave Yard

Grave Yard in Glebe, County Longford, is where the O'Farrells of Ardanragh were buried, according to local tradition recorded by Farrell in 1891. The church that once stood beside it has been dismantled, but fragments of it live on in the graveyard itself: a late-medieval round window head serves as the uppermost step of a stone stile on the north side, worn smooth by generations of people stepping over it to reach the dead. An octagonal cross shaft sits cemented atop the enclosing wall, and a small holy-water stoup is worked into the wall fabric. Beneath the present boundary, older ditches and earthen banks still mark earlier phases of the site, suggesting the graveyard was in use long before the nineteenth-century memorials now visible among the graves.