Graveyard in Ballyvoddy, County Cork

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What is recorded here

On SW side of road; at NW end of Rockmills. Rectangular graveyard (c. 35m NE-SW; c. 50m NW-SE); enclosed by stone wall except for roadside on NE side where it is enclosed by stone wall atop retaining wall. Headstones date mainly from late 18th and 19th-century: a number of low uninscribed grave markers also noted. Still in occasional use. Tower and steeple of C of I church (14701) on N side. Site of earlier parish church of St Nathlash (14397).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO018-084001

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