Graveyard in Rathcoole

This walled, roadside graveyard in Rathcoole village encloses the site of a medieval parish church (DU021-030001-). The ground surface within rises towards the N, with the current church set on and dug into the crest of the burial ground. As well as a fine vault, several table tombs, and gravemarkers dating to the 18th and 19th century within the graveyard there is a granite stone cross (DU021-030003) and holed stone (DU021-030) embedded in the ground surface both at the SE of the church. Austin Cooper's diaries from the 18th century (Price 1942, 54) also describes a stone with traces of a granite cross near a graveslab in the present C of I churchyard (DU021-03005-).

This walled, roadside graveyard in Rathcoole village encloses the site of a medieval parish church (DU021-030001-). The ground surface within rises towards the N, with the current church set on and dug into the crest of the burial ground. As well as a fine vault, several table tombs, and gravemarkers dating to the 18th and 19th century within the graveyard there is a granite stone cross (DU021-030003) and holed…