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Graveyard in Killaconnigan

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Located on a slight rise in a level landscape. The site of the parish church of Killaconnigan (ME035-010----) is within a D-shaped graveyard (max. dims c. 60m NW-SE; c. 50m NE-SW) defined by a straight earthen bank at NW, a low earthen bank at NE and a path E-S at the base of the slope. There is a small cross (ME035-010002-) at the centre. Headstones date from c. 1770 to the present.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME035-010001

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  • Maker not stated on source page, www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.irishamericanmom.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
  • Sherry FitzGerald Royal / MyHome.ie; photographer not stated, www.myhome.ie
  • James Allan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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