Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB20/03/003 B

Address :
O'Grogan Memorial Cranfield Graveyard Cranfield Road Randalstown Antrim Co Antrim

Townland:
Cranfield

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:
16/10/1974 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:
19/03/2002 00:00:00

Current Use:
Demolished

Former Use
Mausoleum

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
Yes

Derelict:
Demolished

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OS Map No:
111/1

IG Ref:
J0551 8524

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Owner Category

Exterior Description And Setting

Demolished or otherwise removed from the site. No description was provided in the first survey in 1971. From a photograph it appears to have been an upright slab of stone of rectangular shape with angled top corners, bearing an inscription in raised letters.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Erected to the memory of Daniel O'Grogan who died in 1696. Nothing of special significance or importance or local associational interest is known regarding the person commemorated, except that there is a townland called Groggan to the north-west of Randalstown, which was spelled Grogan in the early 19th century. Originally listed in 1974. Date when demolished or removed from the site not known. The headstone stood within the area of a scheduled monument, no. ANT49: 49. The church was built probably in the 13th century, and was ruinous by the early 17th century. References – Primary Sources 1. Inscription on slab. Secondary Sources 1. UAHS, West Antrim (Belfast, 1970), p 22 (but refers to church rather than graveyard). 2. D.A. Chart, E.E. Evans, and H.C. Lawlor, A Preliminary Survey of the Ancient Monuments of Northern Ireland (HMSO, Belfast, 1940), p 42 (but refers to church rather than graveyard). 3. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol 19: Parishes of County Antrim VI, 1830, 1833, 1835-38 (Belfast, 1993), pp 32, 71 (but refers to the church rather than the graveyard, and the only reference to a memorial is to a Captain Hagan's tomb).

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Demolished or otherwise removed from the site.

General Comments

Date of Survey

25 September 1999