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Burial in Ballybraid

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On a narrow terrace on a steep hillside. Known as 'The Twelve Graves', the traditional burial place of locals masacred by Cromwellian troops and marked by twelve recently erected commemorative wooden crosses (pers comm. Denis Gill).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI029-026

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