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Graveyard in Ballyfoyle

Graveyard

What is recorded here

On SE side of road; trapezoidal area (c. 35m N-S; c. 30m E-W) enclosed by stone wall; interior slopes down gently to S. Many low uninscribed grave markers in S half; headstone dated 1782 in SE corner; another stone (H0.6m; 0.25m x 0.16m) has simple Latin cross (H 0.2m; Wth 0.14m) incised on W face. Vault of Roberts family with date 1838 in NE corner. Still in use. No visible surface trace of Ballyfoyle parish church which stood to N of centre (site indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map); in repair 1615 but ruinous by 1639 (Brady 1863, vol. 1, 354-5).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO113-011001

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  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • John M, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Tim FitzGerald, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Greg Clarke, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
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