Graveyard in Bridgetown Lower, County Cork

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What is recorded here

Graveyard (c. 42m N-S; c. 42m E-W) on S side of monastic complex at Bridgetown Priory (14381). Enclosed by limestone rubble walls (H c. 1.4m); area almost entirely occupied by extensive dumps of stone rubble. Traces of low stone walls visible within graveyard probably remains of burial vaults. Section of S wall of graveyard stands 3.5m high, indicating former structure here; W wall of graveyard built on foundations of earlier wall. Interior of monastic complex, especially the church, long used for burial (see 14381).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO034-027001

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