What is recorded here

Burying Ground is a graveyard in Piercefield or Templeoran, County Westmeath, Ireland. It is a circular enclosure approximately 47 metres north-south and 45 metres east-west, surrounded by a stone wall of post 1700 date. The 1837 edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map depicts Templeoran Church standing in the centre, where the ruins and tombstones from the 18th to 20th centuries now lie. The boundary may follow the line of an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure.

Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and annotated as ‘Templeoran Church’ (WM011-098----) where it is depicted standing in the centre of a circular shaped graveyard or ‘Burying Ground’. A circular shaped graveyard (approx. diam. 47m N-S; 45m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall of post 1700 date. In the centre there are the ruins of Templeoran Church (WM011-099---) and tombstones dating from the 18th-20th centuries. The circular shaped graveyard boundary may follow the line of an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure (WM011-099002-). Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 August 2017

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