What is recorded here
On top of a ridge overlooking coastline to E, roughly rectangular graveyard enclosed by stone-faced earthen bank. Many rows of low, uninscribed headstones; two chest tombs to E of church (CO151-024002-); earliest inscriptions date to 1760s. Pyramidal grave marker in SW quadrant; six gabled tombs to W of church. Still in occasional use.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO151-024001
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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