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Located on a shelf that slopes down gently to the N with slightly lower ground to the W before a hill rises over the town of Castleblayney, but the ground falls away steeply to the N and E. The parochial centre of Muckno parish moved from the site of St Maodóid’s monastery and the medieval parish church at Church Hill (MO020-020001-), on the E shore of Lough Muckno, to Castleblayney during the seventeenth century. William, the sixth Lord Blayney probably built the church (MO020-027----) at the N end of a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 170m NNW-SSE; c. 60m ENE-WSW) defined by masonry walls. The oldest memorials dating from c. 1770 are around this structure on a slightly rising area (diam. c. 45m), forming the original graveyard. The present Church of Ireland church of St Maeldoid which was built in 1858-60 is a replacement for a church on the same site at the centre of the graveyard that was built in 1810 (Lewis 1837 vol. 2, 408)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 22 June 2017
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