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Burial ground in Garranes (bear By.)

Burial ground
Burial ground in Garranes (bear By.)
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Ferns hide a fifteen-metre square where unmarked stones still stand, while gorse chokes the rocky ridges above and below. People placed the dead there before living memory faded, trusting the earth to keep what stone forgot. The hollow slopes east toward light, but the names remain buried beneath green silence.
In a fern-covered E-sloping hollow with gorse-covered rocky ridges to N and S. According to local information, a roughly square area (c. 15m x 15m) was used as a burial ground. Some plain uninscribed upright stone grave-markers were noted among the ferns. The burial ground has not been used in living memory. 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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