What is recorded here
Kilbegly is a small graveyard where a forgotten church still stands at the top of an old Christian enclosure. The wall marks a boundary older than most of the graves inside it, and the buried ditch beside that wall suggests the place was kept apart long before the present stones appeared. People have layered their dead around this high point for centuries, trusting the ground to hold what the world once forgot.
Rectangular graveyard (dims 55.5m ENE-WSW; 36.5m NNW-ESE) defined by masonry walls contains burials from the 18th to the 20th centuries. There is no visible evidence of a church or other structures.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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