What is recorded here

Burial Gd remains a living graveyard on the south edge of Ballyfeard village, preserving stones from the 1860s and a faint gateway plaque marked 1783. It also holds the ghost of a parish church that disappeared beneath the grass before 1860, leaving behind only soil, memory and the continuing rhythm of local burial. The place still receives the dead, still marks time, and still keeps the village attached to its own depth.

On S side of Ballyfeard village, sub-rectangular (50m E-W; 40m N-S) graveyard enclosed by stone wall to W and N (part of N wall recently removed) and by stone-faced earthen bank to E and S, bank curves at SE corner. Still in use, earliest noted headstones date to 1860s. Plaque on gateway in N wall with date 1783 but writing illegible (see similar plaque CO112-04201- & CO112-00501-). Once contained parish church of Ballyfeard which was in ruins by 1615 (Brady 1863, vol. 1, 27) and described as 'almost level with the ground' in 1704 (ibid., 28), by 1860 there was no trace of it in the graveyard (ibid., 29). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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