What is recorded here

Grave Yard is a graveyard in Lavagh (leyny By.), County Sligo, Ireland. The oldest rectangular portion contains the ruin of Court Abbey in the NW corner, with an 18th-century O'Hara burial vault set into the chancel. The site extended north and south during the 19th and 20th centuries, preserving the earliest known headstone dated 1789 inside the abbey.

The oldest portion of the graveyard is rectangular (c. 50m E-W; c. 30m N-S) and contains the ruin of Court Abbey (SL032-047001-), in the NW corner. It was extended to the N and S in the 19th and 20th centuries and contains many headstones from these periods. The earliest headstone noted was dated 1789 and is located inside the abbey. An 18th-century burial vault of the O'Hara family is set into the NW corner of the chancel. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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