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Graveyard in Garravagh

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On N bank of River Lee; rectangular graveyard (60m E-W; c. 50m N-S) enclosed by stone wall. Still in use; large collection of 18th- and 19th-century headstones to S of church, earliest noted dated 1770. Just N of centre, ruin of C of I parish church of Inishcarra (CO073-037002-). To N of church five gabled mausoleums; most easterly is largest with near identical pedimented gables at E and W ends; most westerly also large and built in neo-Romanesque style; all five suffering from vandalism. Site of early church 'built by St. Senan' (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 386), of which there is no visible surface trace.
On N bank of River Lee; rectangular graveyard (60m E-W; c. 50m N-S) enclosed by stone wall. Still in use; large collection of 18th- and 19th-century headstones to S of church, earliest noted dated 1770. Just N of centre, ruin of C of I parish church of Inishcarra (CO073-037002-). To N of church five gabled mausoleums; most easterly is largest with near identical pedimented gables at E and W ends; most westerly…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO073-037001

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Hywel Williams, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Brendandiamond, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Hywel Williams, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Richard Fensome, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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