What is recorded here

Grave Yard sits on a Limerick hill above rolling pasture, still receiving the dead beside roads that cut across its southern edge. Most graves point east-west, but one nineteenth-century marker tilts slightly southeast, as if its owner refused to align with the crowd. Older slabs have sunk into the earth or vanished under grass, while a low embankment holds the northern edge against the drop. The dead remain crowded into a small rectangle, overlooking living fields that keep moving around them.

Situated immediately S and E of roads at a crossroads on a hill overlooking undulating pasture, with good views to N, E and S. Site of R.C. Chapel (LI014-086001-) depicted to S of graveyard on 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Graveyard depicted on the 1923 ed. OS 6-inch map as a sub-rectangular area (c. 20-30m N-S; 20m E-W). The graveyard is still in use. Most of the graves are orientated E-W. One 19th century grave in the E of the site is orientated ESE-WNW. There are several 19th century headstones evident as well as recumbent slabs, which have become covered over by vegetation. Many of the older grave slabs have subsided. There is a possible embankment in the NE of the site (Wth. 4.4m; H 0.9m) where the ground falls away sharply from S to N.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.