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Aglish Grave Yard is a burial ground in Aglish (coshmore and Coshbride By.), County Waterford, Ireland. It measures about 80 metres north-south and 40 metres east-west, contains no visible church, and has burials dating from the 1750s. An 1840 map shows a smaller rectangular area at the south end of the present graveyard.

Situated in an undulating, low-lying landscape. This is a rectangular stone-walled graveyard (dims. c. 80m N-S; c. 40m E-W) with no evidence of a church and no known ecclesiastical connection other than the townland name. Burial dates from the 1750s (Power 1898a, 216-7), and on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map it is a smaller rectangular area (dims. c. 40m N-S; c. 30m) at the S end of the present graveyard. Power, Rev. P. (1898a) Ancient ruined churches of Co. Waterford, WAJ 4, 83-95, 195-219. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 26 July 2011

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