Graveyard in Cooliney, County Cork

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What is recorded here

Approached by short avenue from road to E. Triangular graveyard (c. 40m N-S; c. 60m E-W), enclosed by stone wall to E, earthen banks elsewhere. Ruin of parish church of Cooliney (14414) in centre. In occasional use; many 18th- and 19th-century headstones noted; also many low uninscribed gravemarkers. Cross-inscribed graveslab to Thomas Dore, dated 1633 with Latin and English inscriptions, within church; cover of chest tomb outside S wall of church dated 1678 (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 2, 250; Anon. 1888-91).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO007-045002

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