Burial Ground (Disused) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Old Burial Ground is a disused subcircular grave field on the west-facing foothills of Barraboy Mountain, marked on the 1842 OS map and still defined by small stones and embedded boulders. It is not a grand cathedral of death, but a quiet human arrangement: people lived nearby, lost someone, set stones in the slope, and left the field to rain, grass and time. Its strangeness is ordinary, which is why it sticks.

On foothills of Barraboy Mountain on W-facing slope. Marked 'Old Burial Ground' on OS 6-inch map (1842). Subcircular area (12m N-S; 16m E-W) defined by mass of small stones and embedded boulders, probably grave markers. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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