Graveyard in Carrigdownane Lower, County Cork

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What is recorded here

To NE of road. Pentagonal graveyard (c. 63m max. E-W; c. 47m max. N-S), raised above surrounding ground level to N, E and S; enclosed by overgrown earthen bank (H 1.5m) with some stone facing; entrance gates to N. Ruin of parish church of Carrigdownane (14402) in centre. In use; burials, mostly marked by low uninscribed gravemarkers, to S of and within church. Earliest headstone noted dated 1790; Grove White (1905-25, vol. 2, 52) records headstone of 1771.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO018-092001

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