Survey Data
Reg No
15313007
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Archaeological, Artistic, Social
Original Use
Graveyard/cemetery
In Use As
Graveyard/cemetery
Date
1700 - 1760
Coordinates
260402, 252712
Date Recorded
28/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Graveyard on irregular plan having a variety of cut stone markers dating from c.1700 to c.1920. No longer in use. Ruins of a single-storey chapel on rectangular-plan to the centre, now overgrown and collapsed. Surrounded by rubble limestone boundary wall. Main entrance gate to the east side, comprising a pair of rubble limestone gate piers (on circular-plan) supporting a wrought-iron flat bar gate. Rubble limestone gate piers (on circular-plan) supporting a wrought-iron flat bar gate to the east gives access to site from the road. Pier to the south now collapsed. Located to the southeast of Raharney.
Appraisal
A picturesque graveyard, which enhances the landscape to the southeast of Raharney. The irregular shape of this graveyard hints at an early date. This graveyard contains a fine collection of both upstanding and recumbent grave markers, dating from the early eighteenth-century to the early-twentieth, many of which exhibit high quality craftsmanship. The date of the church to the centre of this graveyard is not discernible but its small size and rough form suggests that it is quite early, perhaps pre-1700AD in date. The attractive rubble stone boundary wall and the two vernacular gateways add to the setting and complete this atmospheric composition.