Entrance, Relignaman Women's Graveyard, Carrickmore
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Entrance, Relignaman Women's Graveyard, Carrickmore
Image: © Kenneth Allen Taken: 16 Jul 2015
The name Relignaman, (Irish - relig na mban), means Women's Graveyard. It is in a secluded location off the road, 19 metres across and dates from an early Christian period. It was supposed to be sufficiently far from St Colmcille's church in Carrickmore town where the ringing of the bell wouldn't waken the dead. Another tradition decreed that no living woman or no dead man should enter it. Pictured along Quarry Road See close-up of notice here Image]
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54.592982
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-7.063117