Grave Yard

On a NE-facing slope, in rough grazing with outcropping bedrock. Associated with the multiperiod church (KK030-004001-) of Coolaghmore, an irregularly shaped graveyard which appears to have been enclosed after 1839, as on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map it is defined by a dashed line which indicates that it was unenclosed. According to the OS Letters (1839), 'a Patron [is] held here on the first Sunday in September but they have no remembrance of a Patron Saint' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 47). The graveyard (dims. c. 75m N-S at E, tapering to c. 37m at W; c. 64m E-W) is enclosed by a stone wall with an entrance gate in the SE angle. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 336), noted two 13th/14th-century coffin-shaped graveslabs (KK030-004010-; KK030-004011-) in the graveyard and another graveslab (KK030-004009-) was noted c. 7m S of the church during ASI fieldwork. The majority of the headstones in the graveyard are located S of the church, though there are some to the N of the church. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 20 July 2023