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Graveyard in Ballybuggy

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D-shaped graveyard (int. dims. 24m N-S; 35m E-W) with S and E wall built on bank of bivallate ringfort (OF034-004003-). Described by Carrigan as 'The church (LA034-004001-) of Ballybuggy was situated on the summit of a low hill, within a round rath (LA034-004003-) 40 yards in diameter and still showing traces of a…

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D-shaped graveyard (int. dims. 24m N-S; 35m E-W) with S and E wall built on bank of bivallate ringfort (OF034-004003-). Described by Carrigan as 'The church (LA034-004001-) of Ballybuggy was situated on the summit of a low hill, within a round rath (LA034-004003-) 40 yards in diameter and still showing traces of a stone and mortar caiseal along the top of the enclosing earthen rampart. It was about 23 ft. wide internally; its length cannot be determined. All that remains of it now is part of the south side-wall, about 1 ft. in height. There are several well-dressed blocks of limestone scattered about the graveyard, one of them being part of the cap of an ogee-headed window divided by a mullion (LA034-004006-). Part of the graveyard was walled in by the Board of Guardians about 1880. The head-stones are all rude and unisncribed.' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 341-2).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA034-004002

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  • DAR Golf project gallery; individual photographer not stated, dargolf.com
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
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