The graveyard is known locally as the "Apprentice Boys' graveyard" because of the location here of the Mitchelburn and Murray tombs, who were not strictly speaking  'Apprentice Boys' but who did, nevertheless, play their parts during the Siege of Derry (1689). 

 

 

The recently renovated tomb above is that of  Colonel John Mitchelburn, the epitaph reads :

Here lieth the body of Colonel John Mitchelburne, grandson of Sir Richard Mitchelburn of Broadhurst and Stanmore in the County of Sussex, a valiant soldier, faithful, pious, and charitable, expecting the resurrection of the just. He was Commander in Chief at the late memorable Siege of Londonderry, in 1689, in defence of the protestant interest, in the first year of the reign of King William of Blessed Memory, He had many thanks from the king for that eminent service, and deceased the first day of October, in the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty-one, an in the 76th year of his age.

 

For a list of the monumental inscriptions in Glendermott Old Cemetery, as transcribed by Sue and Mike Grieves, just click here to go to their site.