What is recorded here

Yes. The old church and its walled yard still lean out over the Carnfree ridge, but the smallest graves are the ones that keep the place alive. Children were laid to rest there even after the buildings fell silent, turning a forgotten church into a tender, continuing burying ground.

On a SE facing slope at the E end of the Carnfree ridge. The structures (RO028-075001-; RO028-075005-) are within a rectangular enclosure (RO028-075002-) (int. dims 42.3m E-W; 29.5m N-S) defined by earthen banks (Wth 2m; H 0.3-0.5m) which may have been a graveyard, and burials (RO028-075011-), both pre- and post-dating the church structures, were found inside and outside both structures. A number of neo-natal remains in the same area supports a local tradition that it continued in use as a children's burial ground after the church buildings were abandoned in the late sixteenth or seventeenth century. (Shanahan 2006, 6-9; Shanahan and McNeary 2009, 455-6) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13th September, 2010.

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