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The parish church of Monaghan town (MO009-060012-) was established by 1641 (Shirley 1879, 309-10), and its graveyard that is still extant around the Church of Ireland church of St Patrick as a D-shaped area (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S) with straight sides at the E and S where it is defined by buildings but the perimeter is curved W-N where it is defined now by railings. Archaeological testing (03E1672) undertaken in 2003 prior to the erection of a memorial to the victims of the Monaghan bombings in 1974 located c. 8m W of the perimeter of the graveyard exposed both disarticulated human remains and one in situ skeleton oriented in an east-west direction. The remains are part of the graveyard and were preserved in situ (McCarthy 2006). Further archaeological monitoring (05E0219) of trenches in Church Square recovered some disarticulated remains representing three individuals. (Delaney 2008).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 16 November 2016
Amended: 13 January 2020
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