Graveyard in Colman, County Tipperary

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On a gentle E-facing slope in undulating pasture. A sub-rectangular graveyard (dims. 50m N–S; 46.5m E–W) with a church (TS070-086----), orientated E–W, roughly centrally placed within. The graveyard is enclosed by a low earthen and stone bank (int. H 0.6-0.8m; ext. H 0.6-0.7m; Wth at top 1m; overall Wth 1.9-2.1m), except in the E quadrant where the bank is reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m). There are earthworks (TS070-086003-) to the E and SE and a small enclosure (TS070-086002-) immediately to the N of the graveyard and another (TS070-085----) c. 30m to the N. According to the OS Letters 'Its graveyard is deserted' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 67 (181)). There are no graveslabs or headstones visible above ground level.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TS070-086001

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