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Graveyard in Cruagh

Graveyard

What is recorded here

Situated on a steep grass-covered knoll, off the Pine Forest Road. A walled graveyard square in plan (NW-SE 43m, SW-NE 43m). Within the graveyard is the remains of Cruagh Church (DU025-003001-), a roughly square granite font (DU025-003002-), a cemetery watchtower (DU025-003003-) and an inscribed pillar stone or standing stone DU025-003004-) (O'Reilly 1901, 184-155; Crawford 1913, 167; Ó hÉailidhe 1957, 86).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DU025-003005

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Picture: www.wanderersgaa.ie
  • JP, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Alan James, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Sarah777, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
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