What is recorded here

Grave Yd is a trapezoidal graveyard in County Cork, Ireland, holding Fitton burials from 1811 to 1926 beside the ruined Carrigrohanebeg parish church. The Lee and Shournagh rivers meet nearby, feeding the low ground where uninscribed markers and a rusticated limestone vault still stand. What the Fitton vault guarded, and whether the ruined church still gives the yard its shape, remains absent from the supplied facts.

On S side of road, in low-lying area close to junction of Lee and Shournagh rivers. Well-kept, trapezoidal graveyard (43m N-S; 32m E-W; see plan, Henchion 1968b, 176), enclosed by stone wall, except to S where bounded by one-storey residential house. In occasional use; memorial inscriptions recorded by Henchion (ibid.); earliest inscribed headstone dated 1735. In SE quadrant burial vault of Fitton family; rusticated limestone front facade faces E, with collapsing sod-covered mound to rear; interments in vault date from 1811 to 1926. Many low uninscribed gravemarkers noted. At N end ruin of Carrigrohanebeg parish church (CO073-044002-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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