Survey Data
Reg No
14820022
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Graveyard/cemetery
In Use As
Graveyard/cemetery
Date
1830 - 1870
Coordinates
207719, 203919
Date Recorded
30/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached L-plan single-storey caretaker's lodge, built c.1850, with central porch. Set within the grounds of Clonoghill Cemetery. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks. Timber bargeboards to gable ends. Limestone plinth with random coursed limestone walls, from which render has been removed. Replacement casement windows with stucco hoodmouldings and tooled limestone sills and yellow brick surround. Pointed-arched opening to porch with fixed timber window and limestone sill. Pointed arched door opening with yellow brick surround. Timber battened door and stone threshold. Large cemetery with recumbent and upright grave markers bounded by random coursed limestone walls, accessed through square profile cut limestone gate piers with tooled limestone pyramidal capping stones with cast-iron gates.
Appraisal
Clonoghill Cemetery is situated between the large town of Birr and the smaller village of Crinkill, on a sloping site which gives beautiful views of the surrounding area. The yew trees stand tall, dotted between stone grave markers like silent sentinels watching over the dead. The small lodge situated next to the fine entrance gates was carefully and thoughtfully constructed with attention spent over its design seen in its stepped façade, its pointed-arched door opening, which is echoed in the pointed arch window opening and the hoodmouldings that surmount the main windows. Clonoghill cemetery is an important place to those in the community, it continues to be used and is well maintained.