What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Cork, Ireland is an irregular graveyard beside a ruined parish church, with marked burials mostly from the 19th century and one headstone dated 1780. A stone wall and eastern stile give it a small, formal edge, but overgrowth still chokes the areas around the church. The place may have felt less like a lost site and more like a living neighbourhood, where families returned, named their dead, and left the church to rot behind them.

Approached from road c. 70m to E. Irregular graveyard (max. 60m WSW-ENE; max. 60m NNW-SSE), enclosed by stone wall; entered via stile to E. Ruin of parish church of Derryvillane (14416) in centre. Area to E, N and W of church inaccessible due to dense overgrowth but gravemarkers concentrated here. Marked burials to S of church mostly 19th century, including canopy tomb of 1883; earliest headstone noted dated 1780, just S of church. Southern third of graveyard has no evident gravemarkers. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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