What is recorded here

Lipstown’s Burial Ground preserves a vanished church and a brutal battle inside one quiet field. Farmers stopped ploughing the square plot because bones kept appearing, while local tradition named the defeated soldiers of Kilrush in 1642. Aerial photography later revealed that the granite cross stands within a small circular enclosure, itself set inside a larger ecclesiastical boundary, suggesting faith and fury both belonged there before memory thinned. The field no longer needs explanation; it withholds what it can and returns only enough to keep being remembered.

On a W-facing pasture slope. An oval area (50m NNW – SSE; 25m NNE - SSW) defined by a vegetation band (Wth 2m) ESE-S-W-NNE, with faint traces of an earthen bank elsewhere. The interior appears to have been dug out, with two distinct hollows occupying most of the area enclosed. No grave markers are visible. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 14 June 2012

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