Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/10/022

Address :
Clonlea Graveyard Grinan Lough Road Greenan Newry Co Down BT34

Townland:
Greenan

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Graveyard

Former Use
Graveyard

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
276/4

IG Ref:
J1185 2220

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Owner Category

Miscellaneous

Exterior Description And Setting

Small raised graveyard set back on W side of Grinan Lough Road and bounded by dry stone rubble wall, on the E side of which is a recess containing three stone steps leading up into the graveyard proper. This is raised level with the wall head and contains many small roughly dressed memorial stones, all facing E. To centre, in a line running N-S and facing E, are three large dressed stone crosses each on a stone base. That to centre is 19thC; its rear (W) face is inscribed (mostly illegible) with text which includes “Patrick Mooney” and the date 1883. The N cross has no text but each angle at its crossing is carved into a recessed arc. The S cross is very worn. Inscribed on W side is “P. McM” and 1842. Its base is incised with swirling (Celtic) ornamentation.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

This graveyard is said to be the site of a former mass house. It is shown on the 1834 OS 6” map. The Archaeological Survey only mentions the N and S crosses but not the central one. It states that the upper portion of the S cross was decorated with carving (now weathered) of “angel scrolls and panels of interlace” and that they were 19th C copies of the nearby Kilbroney Cross. Primary Source: 1. PRONI OS 6” map 1st edition (1834), Co Down sheet 51. 2. Margaret Harty, ’St Mary’s Clonallon – a short history of the Burren Parish’. December, 1993. 3. M. Jope (ed), ‘Archaeological Survey of County Down’ (Belfast 1966), p.301.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A small graveyard some local significance only.

General Comments

Date of Survey

16 August 1999