Unusual question about unknown city/village in Ireland

Another Junior Cert project?

Hypnosia wrote: »

Hello,
I am looking for a city / village in Ireland.
Most likely it is a county Leitrim but this is not certain.
I know a few facts :
- Are the ruins of the castle which once lived a very unpopular ruler(Lord?) who hanged many of his subjects,
- The dead were buried in the gardens near castle
- Near several / a few dozen kilometers from here is also abandoned abbey
- In the area is water / river / lake

Do you have any types?
Thank you.

You are posting on a History forum and you have not provided that most basic item of historical information - a date. Your post reads like a very bad plot for an even worse novel.
To answer your question, most landlords were unpopular, few were titled and even fewer were 'Lords.' None could hang their 'subjects' be they 'many' or few because the law would not allow it and it would prosecute the murderer. Neither did ‘subjects' exist in Ireland. There were laws (religious and secular - without the whole 'Established' thing) on burial that applied to and were respected by all; law and custom insisted on churchyard burial - outside of the mass graves of famines – and it would be unheard of to bury a person in a garden. Reality check please Mods.

pedroeibar1 wrote: »

There were laws (religious and secular - without the whole 'Established' thing) on burial that applied to and were respected by all; law and custom insisted on churchyard burial - outside of the mass graves of famines – and it would be unheard of to bury a person in a garden. Reality check please Mods.

This is not true.

There were customs for burying the dead, but I'm pretty sure that laws for same where only introduced in the early c19th. I'll check this at home later.

I've worked as an archaeologist for nearly 20 years and have excavated hundreds of skeletons at many different sites. The vast majority of these skeletons date from the medieval or later (the period which I assume the OP was referring to) and have been uncovered at sites that are not located near any known ecclesiastical site.

Its also worth noting that the remains of executed prisoners were not treated with the same respect as others. The bodies were often put on display, mutilated or buried in unconsecrated ground. Skeletons of hanged men have been found in Eyre Square, Galway which has served as a tournament field or park since the medieval period onward.