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Graveyard in Cork City, County Cork (CO074-033001-)

Graveyard

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CO074-033001-
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Irregular graveyard to N and E of St. Anne's C of I church, Shandon (CO074-03303-). Enclosed by high stone wall, with Skiddy's Almshouses (CO074-105---) forming SE corner, railing to S; now public park. Headstones placed horizontally along base of W wall of graveyard, N wall and E gable of church; vault to Waters…

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Irregular graveyard to N and E of St. Anne's C of I church, Shandon (CO074-03303-). Enclosed by high stone wall, with Skiddy's Almshouses (CO074-105---) forming SE corner, railing to S; now public park. Headstones placed horizontally along base of W wall of graveyard, N wall and E gable of church; vault to Waters family inside eastern gate; some chest tombs and pyramidal grave markers remain; line of graves, consisting of two chest tombs, outside E wall of graveyard, enclosed by railings. Inscribed headstones date from 1703. Site of earlier church of St. Mary's Shandon, shown on Phillips map (1685) 'as a long rectangular structure with three transepts of annexes, two on the southside and one on the north' (Bradley et al. 1985, 70). Demolished during siege of 1690 and replaced by St. Mary's (CO074-03102-), lower down hill, in 1693.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO074-033001

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