What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Cork has buried people since at least 1777, its square stone walls holding the ruined parish church of Dromtarriff off-centre to the south. The graveyard grew from a smaller polygonal patch on the 1842 map into its present seventy-metre span, a quiet witness to generations who walked the eastern road. A holy well waits two hundred metres to the southwest, completing a landscape where death, memory and water still move through the same land.

On E side of road; square graveyard (c. 70m N-S; c. 70m E-W) enclosed by stone wall; entered by gate from road to E. Ruin of parish church of Dromtarriff (14419) off-centre to S. In use; earliest headstone noted dated 1777. The 1842 OS 6-inch map depicts graveyard as smaller (c. 55m WSW-ENE; c. 35m NNW-SSE) and polygonal in shape. Holy well (13982) c. 200m to SW. 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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