Graveyard in Kilcooney, County Waterford

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What is recorded here

Situated in pasture on a slight E-facing slope. The church of Kilcooney (WA013-028001-) is marked faintly as a rectangular building (dims. c. 20m E-W; c. 8m N-S) within a rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 45m E-W; c. 35m N-S) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and described as a graveyard by J. O'Donovan c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1929, 48). It is not visible at ground level. O'Flanagan, M. (Compiler) (1929) Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Waterford collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1841. Typescript. Bray.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA013-028002

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