What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Limerick holds the buried remains of Fanningstown Church, whose ruins still mark its north edge. A post-1700 stone wall encloses the rectangular ground, preserving Denis Hogan’s 1785 memorial and the quiet continuity of local death. The church may have fallen into ruin before the graveyard stopped being merely an attachment, yet people kept returning to bury their dead beside what remained of its walls.

In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded that the ruins of Fanningstown Church (LI022-043002-) 'lie in the north side of the graveyard' (OSNB, 698-9). Present remains consist of a rectangular-shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 32m N-S x 47m E-W) enclosed by a post-1700 stone wall. Graveyard enclosing element depicted on the first ed. OS 6-inch map with curving boundary from N-E-SSE and elsewhere by a straight field boundary. The oldest memorial belongs of Denis Hogan who died in 1785 (O'Kelly 1943, 224). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 03 January 2019

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