Survey Data
Reg No
13001019
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic, Social
Previous Name
Longford Presbyterian Meeting House
Original Use
Graveyard/cemetery
Date
1800 - 1860
Coordinates
213145, 275993
Date Recorded
01/09/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Presbyterian graveyard on triangular-plan, built c. 1810, now overgrown and out of use. Number of inscribed memorials to interior. Surrounded by modern wall to the rear of modern house. Formerly located to the rear (west) of Presbyterian church/meeting house, now demolished. Located to the north end of Longford Town.
Appraisal
This simple graveyard represents an interesting historical reminder of the once numerous Presbyterian community in Longford. It is now overgrown and out of use. It contains a number of well-carved upstanding cut stone memorials of mainly nineteenth and early twentieth-century, some of which are of artistic merit. The earliest legible grave marker is to the Parks family, dated November 1813. It (probably) forms a pair of related structures along with the former manse (13001001) to the north, and is an interesting feature of both social and historical importance to the north end of Longford Town. It was originally sited to the rear (west) of a Presbyterian church/meeting house, which was built in the 1830s and demolished in the 1950s. The church/meeting house reputedly catered for a large number of Presbyterian soldiers, from a Scottish regiment that was garrisoned at Sean Connolly Barracks to the south, during the second half of the nineteenth century.