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Graveyard in Killerry

Graveyard
Graveyard in Killerry
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On the W side of a road. A rectangular graveyard (60m E-W; 55m N-S) enclosed by a low stone wall. The ruin of the parish church of Killerry (SL021-011001-) forms part of the S boundary wall. The graveyard is under grass and contains many 19th- and 20th-century headstones and some low uninscribed grave-markers as well as several chest-tombs and several recumbent graveslabs. It is still in occasional use. In the NE quadrant are several curing stones and a straining stone (SL021-011003-). According to Wood-Martin (1892, 364), this graveyard was 'cleared and levelled' in the 19th century.
On the W side of a road. A rectangular graveyard (60m E-W; 55m N-S) enclosed by a low stone wall. The ruin of the parish church of Killerry (SL021-011001-) forms part of the S boundary wall. The graveyard is under grass and contains many 19th- and 20th-century headstones and some low uninscribed grave-markers as well as several chest-tombs and several recumbent graveslabs. It is still in occasional use. In the NE…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL021-011002

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Pictures: Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Raymond Bell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Willie Duffin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; John Darcy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Richard Webb, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Lucarelli, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

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