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Burial ground in Church Hill

Burial ground

What is recorded here

No visible church remains, only a sunken quadrant in the SE corner of a pasture field, known locally as a burial ground beside a lost church site. The earth has been ploughed many times, yet the shape holds: thirty-nine metres east-west, twenty-four north-south, bounded by a shallow inner scarp and two field fences. Whatever was buried there has been turned over and forgotten, then remembered again through the dip itself.
In pasture, in SE corner of field. Sunken quadrant (39m E-W; 24m N-S) in angle of field defined by inner-facing scarp W->N (D c. 0.35m), and by field fences to E and S. Known locally as burial ground. Bowman (1934, 293) recorded church site (14467) and burial ground here which have been 'ploughed many times'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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