What is recorded here

Grave Yard stands on a knoll above Drumsnat Lough in County Monaghan, holding headstones dated from 1705 and a disc-headed cross beside the vanished parish church. Earthen banks and hedges still mark its edges, while a mass-rock waits outside the gate as if guarding the lane to the public road. The dead have watched the water for centuries, patient and unburdened by the loss of the building that once gave them a name.

Situated on a knoll overlooking Drumsnat Lough (max. dims c. 220m NE-SW; c. 150m NW-SE), which is c. 60m to the NE. There is no evidence now of the parish church of Drumsnat (MO013-002003-) within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 28-35m N-S) defined by earthen banks or scarps with hedges. There is a gate and masonry piers at the E angle where a short lane (L c. 20m) leads NE to a public road. Architectural fragments (MO013-002002-) from the graveyard are now in storage with Monaghan County Museum. A disc-headed cross (MO013-002001-) is within the graveyard and a mass-rock (MO013-002005-) is outside it to one side of the entrance. The inscriptions on the headstones dating from 1719 have been recorded (Ó Dubhthaigh 1966, 98-103), but the earliest noted in a modern survey by Irish Graveyard Surveys, which is displayed by the entrance, is 1705. Compiled by: Michael Moore See the attached images of the mass-rock _01, _02 See the attached view of the graveyard from the NE _03 Date of upload: 30 November 2016

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