Old Glendermott (Clondermot / Apprentice Boys Cemetery)
Old Glendermott Cemetery, in the Burngibbagh valley, is one of Derry’s most historically significant burial grounds. Known as the Apprentice Boys Cemetery, it holds the graves of Colonel Adam Murray and Colonel John Mitchelburn, two celebrated defenders of the city during the Siege of Derry (1689). The site once held a pre-Reformation parish church, later rebuilt by the London Goldsmiths’ Company, but both church buildings were eventually lost, leaving only the graveyard. Its oldest stones date to the 1600s and include evocative carvings such as skull-and-crossbones motifs, linking the site to some of the city’s earliest recorded burials. For visitors, Old Glendermott is both a memorial to the city’s turbulent past and a resting place for some of its most legendary figures.
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