Survey Data
Reg No
31209003
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Graveyard/cemetery
In Use As
Graveyard/cemetery
Date
1760 - 2011
Coordinates
114000, 290122
Date Recorded
26/11/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Graveyard with collection of cut-stone markers, ob. 1760+. Set in landscaped grounds with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having drag edged cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping supporting replacement mild steel double gates.
Appraisal
A graveyard featuring an array of markers of artistic merit demonstrating good quality workmanship with markers of special interest including Classical-style funerary monuments identifying the burial plots of Reverends Richard Gibbons (d. 1847) and James Mac Manus (1802-47), both casualties of the Great Famine (1845-9): meanwhile, near-uniform headstones identify the so-called "Commonwealth War Graves" of Private Joseph McHale (d. 1918) and Sergeant James Patrick Nyland (d. 1943), casualties of the First World War (1914-8) and Second World War (1939-45) respectively.