Graveyard in Rathcusack or Rathcorrig

On brow of gentle W-facing slope with good views from S-W-N. The River Nore flows roughly N-S c. 300m to the W. A public road runs roughly N-S c. 10m to the E. There is a medieval church (KK024-059001-) centrally placed within the graveyard. A circular area (overall diam. c. 63m; int. diam. c. 50m) enclosed by a stone wall and entered from the E side via a gate with capped piers on either side. The gravestones are concentrated in the W half of the graveyard and none are earlier in date than the late 18th century. The earliest headstone noted by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 488) dated to 1723. The stone wall enclosing the graveyard was built on the fosse of the original ecclesiastical enclosure (KK024-059003-), the internal bank of this enclosure being retained within the stone wall of the graveyard. See attached: KK024-059001-_01 Google Earth street view image from the SE, May 2009 KK024-059002-_01 Google Earth street view image from the NE, May 2009 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 29 September 2021

On brow of gentle W-facing slope with good views from S-W-N. The River Nore flows roughly N-S c. 300m to the W. A public road runs roughly N-S c. 10m to the E. There is a medieval church (KK024-059001-) centrally placed within the graveyard. A circular area (overall diam. c. 63m; int. diam. c. 50m) enclosed by a stone wall and entered from the E side via a gate with capped piers on either side. The gravestones…