Graveyard in Gallon, County Cavan

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What is recorded here

Located towards the top of the E and S-facing slope of a drumlin. The parish church of Killinkere is conserved within a subcircular graveyard (dims c. 52m E-W; c. 42m N-S) defined by a drystone wall which is replaced by a masonry wall where it borders a farm lane S-W. The graveyard has headstones dating from c. 1720 to c. 1960 including a fine collection of eighteenth century slate headstones.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV033-031002

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
P Webb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Coleman Photographic Collection; photographer unknown, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Ian Rob, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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