Survey Data
Reg No
30310004
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Technical
Previous Name
New Cemetery
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
In Use As
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1840 - 1880
Coordinates
130736, 226179
Date Recorded
03/11/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Enclosing wall and gates of Bohermore Cemetery, erected c.1860. Coursed rock-faced limestone enclosing walls with coping. Tooled square-profile limestone gate piers having pyramidal capping stones with cross finials, moulding copings and bases over rock-faced plinth. Wrought-iron double-leaf gates to vehicular entrance and single-leaf gate to pedestrian entrance.
Appraisal
The historic Bohermore Cemetery is the resting place of many famous individuals, including the nationally-renowned writers, Pádraic Ó Conaire, Lady Gregory and Walter Macken, as well as the notorious wartime propagandist Lord Haw-Haw. The enclosing walls and gates are fine displays of the crafts of stoneworking and metalworking.