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Burial ground in Ardaragh West

Burial ground
Burial ground in Ardaragh West
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Ardaragh West holds a rectangular burial ground about twenty metres long inside an east-facing hollow between rocky ridges. Sheep still graze above the occasional surface stones, trapping human loss beneath ordinary motion. The site served deaths before the mid 19th century and perhaps longer, keeping its dead close to the sky and away from busy roads.
In rough grazing land, in an E-facing hollow between rocky ridges. According to local information, a roughly rectangular area (c. 20m E-W; c. 10m N-S), in which occasional surface stones were noted, was used as a burial ground before the mid 19th century and possibly earlier. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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