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Gortroe graveyard

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On E side of road; rectangular (c. 55m E-W; c. 30m N-S) tree-lined graveyard enclosed by stone wall. Well-maintained graveyard with '186 headstones, about one-half of which were erected in the eighteenth century' (O Buachalla & Henchion 1966, 79-80) the oldest dated 1735; late 18th/19thcentury burial vault in NE corner. Ruined C of I parish church of Gortroe (CO044-04002-) in centre.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO044-040001

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