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A gravel path through a graveyard of upright headstones and dark evergreens, with a pale mausoleum topped by a cross.

Saint Joseph's graveyard, Knock Road

This church said its last mass in 1898 and has stood open ever since.

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What is known at a glance

128years between the two ends of this story

NIAH-31814001

29monuments within 2 kmArchaeological Survey of Ireland
2026record checked2026-08-01
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From where you are standing, 3 things to find

  1. 01
    The belfry of the ruined church — it is still standing.

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  2. 02
    Celtic Revival high crosses among the nineteenth- and twentieth-century grave markers.

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  3. 03

A Roman Catholic graveyard established in 1798, later extended westward, with the ruin of the former church inside it.

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The appraisal, verbatim: The distinctive mausoleum of Peter Kelly and the remains of the renowned O' Connor Dons, descendants of the last High Kings of Ireland, add a historical dimension to the graveyard.

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Surveyed date range 1795–1800.

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Esther Cooke, a schoolgirl in Castlerea, wrote in 1938: The O'Connor Donns have a lot in it and some of them are buried there. Recently the Kellys of the Square built a vault there. The State inventory records the same two things, from the other direction and sixty years later.

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Where this is, and what is near it

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Hut siteEmbanked enclosureArm
170 m WRO026-022

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EnclosureEnclosureArm
190 m NRO026-024

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QuarryQuarryArm
240 m SWRO026-023

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RingfortRingfort - rathDemesne
420 m ERO026-026

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RingfortRingfort - cashelArm
940 m WRO026-020

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EnclosureEnclosureArm
950 m WNWRO026-070

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EnclosureEnclosureDemesne
970 m ENERO026-067

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ChurchOldtown ChapelArm
980 m SSWRO026-037001

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RingfortRingfort - rathDemesne
1.0 km ESERO026-027

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WellTobershanballyArm
1.1 km SSWRO026-037002

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BridgeBridgeDemesne
1.1 km ESERO026-029

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CastleCastlereagh HouseDemesne
1.2 km ERO026-028

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Clonalis House: a two-storey Victorian Italianate country house in grey render with a projecting entrance tower, clipped shrubs and urns on the terrace.
PlacesClonalis House
1.2 km NNW

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RingfortRingfort - rathDemesne
1.2 km ENERO026-030

No photograph of this exists. The land from above, at its own coordinates.

A long white rendered building with small square windows, standing beside a filling station forecourt.
PlacesThe Old Bridewell
1.3 km ESE

National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · NIAH survey · © Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Reproduced for educational use with credit.

A cut-stone church with a square tower and spire, lancet windows, and a white statue on a pedestal inside the railings.
PlacesSaint Patrick's Catholic Church
1.3 km ESE

National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · NIAH survey · © Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Reproduced for educational use with credit.

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