Old Connaught Graveyard Open for Visitors

We will be opening the graveyard from 11 - 2 o'clock on two days during Heritage Week.
The graveyard contains a variety of memorials including chest tombs, free-standing crosses, grave slabs, headstones and undecorated stone markers. Evidence remains of a significant collection of cast-iron work including simple plot railings and free-standing cast-iron crosses. Memorials from 17th, 18th 19th and 20th centuries are contained within Old Connaught. There are two First World War graves in the graveyard which have limestone headstones of standard military design and commemorate Sapper W. Skelton of the Royal Engineers who served as Private P Ashford for the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers who died on the 1st of March 1918. Further details are available on our website:

The oldest date is upside down on the O'Neale headstone, the date is 1661, this part of the inscription is now visible as the stone has been reset. The O'Neales have reused an older headstone.

This property is opposite the entry for Festine Lente...we will have a Banner showing where the graveyard is.
While the pathway is wheelchair accessible, the graveyard itself is a rough terrain, and as with a lot of old graveyards it will take cautious steps to navigate to each headstone.
Limited car parking is available on the road but for safety sake one should park at Festine Lente across the road and walk to the Graveyard.
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