What is recorded here
To the S of centre in a very overgrown graveyard (KD024-003004-), on the site of a medieval church (KD024-003002-) and possible early ecclesiastical foundation (KD024-003005-). Barrow (1972, 187) quotes an earlier Beauford article (1790, 75-85) which describes this building as '"an 18th century rebuilding by the Board…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD024-003001
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- Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, curiousireland.ie
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