Graveyard in Coolineagh, County Cork

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On N side of road, within early ecclesiastical enclosure (9199); subrectangular graveyard (c. 70m E-W; c. 45m N-S) enclosed by stone wall. In occasional use; many 18th- and 19th-century inscribed headstones, the earliest noted dated 1794, also some low uninscribed gravemarkers. Immediately E of church ruins is inscribed, late-medieval graveslab, broken into three pieces (0.67m x 1.7m): ringed eight-armed fleur-de-lis cross-head with shaft rising from stepped base. In SE quadrant stands an ogham stone (7960); in NE corner is a relocated saint's stone (9247); at centre fragmentary remains of successive 18th- and 19th- century C of I parish churches of Aghabulloge (9578); in the demolition of earlier of these an ogham stone was found (7960).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO061-080002

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