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Cill Chluain Each

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Cill Chluain Each is a disused burial ground in County Cork, perhaps the lost centre of a medieval parish stretching between Gleann Bearcháin and An Chraobhach. The name hints at a horse pasture, suggesting the church rose beside open grazing land rather than a crowded village. People may have walked long distances through valley and branch to pray, bury their dead, or gather at festivals in that quiet field.
Disused Burial Ground and probably a church. Possibly was the centre of a parish between Gleann Bearcháin and An Chraobhach in the middle ages. Cill Chluain Each was anglicised to Kilcloonagh in some sources. Cluian Each seems to derive from ' a horse pas

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