Carmavy Graveyard, Carmavy Road, Nutts Corner, Crumlin, Co Antrim

Carmavy Graveyard is a walled burial ground containing three burial vaults and numerous headstones, with a caretaker's house abutting its south-east corner. The main entrance faces south.

The boundary walls are constructed of basalt rubble and field stones with smeared and reticulated cement pointing, topped with an overhanging smooth cement rendered coping. The entrance gateway in the south boundary is set within a concave recess and comprises a pair of tall circular rubble stone piers with humped smooth rendered caps, mounted with an original looped iron gate bearing ball-and-spike finials. The south boundary returns eastward to abut the two-storey house. The eastern boundary wall contains a rectangular enclosure projecting eastward, closed along its front by original iron railings on a low plinth wall. The east boundary coping ramped up to the enclosure on its north side, then resumes at raised height on the south side, except where interrupted by a gabled rectangular vault. The rear face of the rectangular enclosure has large basalt rock copings laid flat and overhanging slightly outward. Ground level within the graveyard slopes upward toward the rear.

The graveyard contains numerous headstones dating from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, some cast iron plaques of mainly 19th century date, and three prominent vaults. The earliest headstone noted is dated 1703 and stands at the midpoint along the western boundary.

The graveyard occupies a very rural setting in a field near a crossroads, surrounded by agricultural land and facing onto a road.

The caretaker's house, numbered 30 Carmavy Road, is a gabled two-storey building with a small gabled porch. The roofs are laid in Bangor blue slates in regular courses with timber barge boards. The walls are smooth cement rendered, lined and blocked, with rusticated quoins at the extremities. The main entrance faces south.

The entrance elevation features three first-floor windows: a semi-circular arched timber sliding sash with 1 over 1 panes and horns, though the left-hand window has been replaced by a 2-light fixed light. All windows have moulded arched stucco surrounds with faceted keystones. Ground floor windows are rectangular timber sashes, 1 over 1 with horns, similarly moulded. The main entrance is a rectangular glazed and panelled door with bowed glazing, surmounted by a plain semi-circular fanlight, set in a similar surround.

The west elevation is similar to the east but includes a small plain semi-circular window to the first floor set in a matching surround, a scalloped timber eaves board, and a cast iron downpipe. The rear elevation has two first-floor windows, rectangular timber sliding sashes of 2 over 2 and 2 over 1 panes with horns, set in plain reveals, and two ground floor windows consisting of modern rectangular timber fixed lights and vents. A modern flush timber glazed door with plain reveals provides access at the rear. The wall is rendered with roughcast and two smooth platbands. A chimney on the apex of the gable is constructed of modern rustic brick with two modern pots, and a PVC extension to the downpipe returns from the side wall. The east elevation is similar to the west but blank.