What is recorded here

Cavan Burying Ground holds nineteenth and twentieth century headstones inside a low earthen bank, while a dedicated St Patrick well waits outside the western fence. People may have danced rounds near the dead into the 1930s, blending grief, joy and memory under one Leitrim sky. The small stream from Lough Donogher still moves beside the place, carrying life past the boundary where humans choose to remember.

Situated in a low-lying position in an undulating landscape with a small N-S stream from Lough Donogher c. 40m to the W. This is a subrectangular area (dims 63m N-S; 24m E-W), defined by an earthen field bank, containing 19th- and 20th-century headstones. Outside the perimeter at W is a square enclosure (dims 10.5m N-S; 7m E-W) defined by wire fences and coniferous trees containing a drystone-built subcircular well (dims 1.3m E-W; 1m N-S; D 1m) dedicated to St Patrick, which is open to the S and still venerated. A pattern with rounds may have continued into the 1930s as recorded in the Schools Manuscripts, for which see this web-page accessed on 18/04/2017: http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4662105/4657246 (MacNamee 1954, 544) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

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