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In 1984 Sheehan recorded that an aerial slide of the site tends to suggest that the graveyard at Kilcumreragh (WM031-079001-) formed part of a larger enclosure (SMR file 10/10/1984). Possible ecclesiastical enclosure identified by Swan (1988, 17) who recorded that there was evidence of a possible enclosure in the quadrantal form of the boundary wall of the graveyard (WM031-079001-). The graveyard boundary wall curves from W-N-NNE which may follow the line of an earlier ecclesiastical enclosure. However it is also possible that the post-1700 graveyard boundary wall follows the contour of the hillock on which it stands rather than following the line of an earlier enclosure.
In 1984 Sheehan recorded that an aerial slide of the site tends to suggest that the graveyard at Kilcumreragh (WM031-079001-) formed part of a larger enclosure (SMR file 10/10/1984). Possible ecclesiastical enclosure identified by Swan (1988, 17) who recorded that there was evidence of a possible enclosure in the quadrantal form of the boundary wall of the graveyard (WM031-079001-). The graveyard boundary wall…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM031-079002
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