Relignaman Women's Graveyard
Quarry Road
Carrickmore
BT79 9JX
United Kingdom
Contact
Phone:
028 9082 3207
Additional Information
Open to the public:
Yes, entry is free (Sometimes public access is restricted due to works for example. Check before you visit)
Grid reference:
H6064072220
SM number:
TYR 036:022
About Relignaman Women's Graveyard
A small, irregularly-shaped enclosure has a grass-grown tumbled wall and small, uninscribed stones and mounds marking graves. Traditionally only women were buried here: no dead man or living woman was meant to enter the enclosure. The monument in its present form is difficult to date closely but the use of the site may be very ancient. There was a pre Norman church at Carrickmore and traditionally Relignaman (which means 'the women’s graveyard’) originated from St Columba’s insistence that a wicked woman should be buried out of earshot of his bell. At Carrickmore there were also special burial grounds for children and for people who had died violently.
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