Graveyard in Knockbrack

Known locally as Drumrat graveyard after the parish in which it is located. A trapezoidal area (50m N-S; 40m E-W at N end; 55m E-W at S end) enclosed by a stone wall, with modern vertical stone-coping, on the E and S sides; the wall dates to 1831 (pers. comm. M. A. Timoney). The W and N boundaries were removed when the graveyard was extended. There is a disused entrance gate at the SE corner and a modern entrance at the W end of the S wall. Headstones date from the mid-18th century to the present day and there are a few chest-tombs and numerous low uninscribed grave-markers, many of which were re-set in 1987 (pers. comm. M. B. Timoney). The graveyard is still in use. The remains of the late medieval parish church of Drumrat (SL039-074001-) lie in the N half. Four cross-slabs (SL039-074006-; SL039-074011-; SL039-074012-; SL039-074013-), only one of which is in situ, were located to the SE and S of the church. A fragment of a horizontal millstone (SL039-074007-) is embedded in concrete on top of a pile of stones on the W side of a chest-tomb adjacent to the external S wall. A bullaun stone (SL039-074009-) from Killined townland c. 2.3km to the S, reused as a stoup, is fixed adjacent to the modern entrance. Portions of quernstones (SL039-074004-; SL039-074005-) which were found in this graveyard are all in the NMI (M. B. Timoney 2001b, 50-54). This graveyard may be within an ecclesiastical enclosure (SL039-074010-).