What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Cork is a rectangular graveyard beside a ruined parish church of Kilpatrick, with rows of low uninscribed markers and one headstone dated 1790. The land falls away east of the road, and a stone-faced bank encloses most of the site, leaving the north edge marked by wall and church ruins. It is the kind of place where forgetting has already begun, yet the stones still arrange themselves in rows as if remembering the shape of the people who laid them down.

On E side of road, land falls away steeply to E; rectangular graveyard (c. 40m N-S; c. 25m E-W) enclosed to E, S and W by stone-faced earthen bank and to N by stone wall and ruined parish church of Kilpatrick (CO099-04002-); partially overgrown. Filled with N-S rows of low uninscribed gravemarkers; three inscribed headstones, one dated 1790, two recent. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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