Cemetery: Old Croghan (formerly Castletown Croghan)

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Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives
Offaly (Kings) Index
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File contributed by: C.Hunt and J. Liddiard

OLD CROGHAN (FORMERLY CASTLETOWN CROGHAN.)
  [From Lord Walter FitzGerald.]

On this townland, lying to the south-west of the hill, stand 
portions of the castle which was granted to Sir Thomas 
Moore, of Mellifont, in 1574.  Between them and the public 
road is what was probably the private church of the castle, 
now a featureless ruin, of which a windowless west 
gable-end, surmounted by a ruined belfry, still stands, with 
a considerable portion of the north wall, and a widely 
gapped each end; the south wall is down, and three old ash 
trees have sprung up on the foundations in the gapped 
portions. With the exception of a table-tomb, there is not a 
trace of any interments in or around the ruins, which are 
unenclosed.  The table-tomb, now nearly prostrate, is a 
short distance to the south of the ruins; the inscription on 
it, which is now very faint, reads':—

The burial ground of Joseph Dames
of Croohan, who died March the 4th
1807 aged -4 years.

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SOURCE: 
Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the 
Memorials of the Dead in Ireland Vol. 9 - FHL # 1279285