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Graveyard in Craggagh

Graveyard
Graveyard in Craggagh
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On flat ground c. 420m SE of the foreshore, with good views to the N. Overlooked and sheltered by a steep ridge c. 500m to the S. Indicated and named ‘Graveyard’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. A roughly trapezoidal graveyard (L c. 80m; Wth at SSE c. 23m; Wth at NNW c. 50m) orientated NNW–SSE within which lies Killonaghan medieval church (CL004-015002-). None of the inscriptions date to earlier than 1890 and there are no medieval or early medieval slabs in evidence. Within the church there are three headstones standing in the W half and three flat graveslabs in the E half.
On flat ground c. 420m SE of the foreshore, with good views to the N. Overlooked and sheltered by a steep ridge c. 500m to the S. Indicated and named ‘Graveyard’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. A roughly trapezoidal graveyard (L c. 80m; Wth at SSE c. 23m; Wth at NNW c. 50m) orientated NNW–SSE within which lies Killonaghan medieval church (CL004-015002-). None of the inscriptions date to earlier…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CL004-015002

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Pictures: Roger Diel, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; John M, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Gordon Hatton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; The original uploader was Rwxrwxrwx at English Wikipedia ., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Andy Waddington, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; No machine-readable author provided. Bogman assumed (based on copyright claims)., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5

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