Graveyard, Coal Pit Road, Saval More, Newry, Co Down, BT34 2RQ is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Graveyard, Coal Pit Road, Saval More, Newry, Co Down, BT34 2RQ
- WRENN ID
- white-mortar-crag
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is a small private graveyard set on the east side of Coal Pit Road at Saval More, enclosed within a mature planted boundary. The enclosure features a large 19th-century flat iron gate mounted on granite posts, set within a concave rubble masonry screen wall facing the road. Access to the graveyard itself is through a small wrought iron pedestrian gate with ball finials on concrete posts.
The graveyard contains two prehistoric granite standing stones within the enclosure, with a third standing stone visible in the field on the opposite side of the road. There are seven marked burial plots. Three graves are marked with stylised dressed granite Celtic crosses, one with a traditional cross, two with headstones, and one with a pedestal that likely once supported a second cross.
The graves, numbered from north to south, record the following: the first Celtic cross commemorates George Gordon of Maryvale, who died 21 May 1916. The second Celtic cross bears inset lettering in memory of May Alice Eden, wife of George Gordon Maryvale, who died 1 February 1906, and their youngest son Edward Corry, who died at Aden on 17 August 1905. The third Celtic cross, inscribed with inset lead letters, marks the grave of Sydney George Gordon, beloved husband of Muriel and eldest son of George and May Gordon, who died 2 May 1939; a polished granite plaque at the foot of this grave additionally records the deaths of his wife Muriel (1879–1963) and their youngest daughter Vivian (1921–1974). A traditional dressed granite cross commemorates William Magowan (1897–1978). A polished 20th-century granite headstone records the deaths of A. DE. R. Gordon of Mount Kearney (August 1957), Ann Gordon (15 October 1986), and Schlena Gordon (1943). A 19th-century sandstone headstone, now toppled, rests on a dressed granite plinth and bears the names Ellen, James and Rose Parker. The seventh grave is marked by a broken Celtic cross with inset lead letters commemorating Colonel Henry Parry Gordon, formerly commanding officer of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, who died suddenly of heart failure while hunting with the Newry Harriers on 19 December 1910.
Historical records indicate that an enclosure existed on this site as shown in the 1834 Ordnance Survey 6-inch map. By the 1860 edition of the same map, the enclosure was explicitly captioned as a graveyard. The Parker family resided at Mount Kearney, located nearby, in the early 19th century, and the Gordon family subsequently occupied the property until the death of Ann Gordon in 1986. It is presumed that this private graveyard was established to serve the occupants of Mount Kearney, likely from the mid-19th century onwards.
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