What is recorded here

Grave Yd (Disused) is a square graveyard on the south bank of the Bride river, approached by a northern laneway and marked only by fragmentary church walls and a central quarry depression. It belongs to the living memory of County Cork, where Carraig na Cille and Killawillin Church still name the same forgotten ground. The place matters because it preserves a buried Christian landscape beneath ash, elder and farm traffic, inviting wonder about the people who prayed, buried and quarried there before the markers disappeared.

Approached by laneway from N, on S bank of Bride river, 400m S of Bridebridge village. Square graveyard (c. 60m NE-SW; c. 60m NW-SE) bounded by sheer drop to N and elsewhere by low stone-faced earthen bank overgrown with ash and elder. Interior divided by farm track crossing from N to S corners. Interior uneven and covered by ground vegetation; depression near centre (D c. 3m) shows evidence of relatively recent quarrying. No visible gravemarkers. To S of centre fragmentary remains of apparently rectangular church (c. 8m E-W; c. 6.45m N-S) (CO045-053002-) bounded to W by mound of rubble but overgrown traces of N, S and E walls evident (max. H 0.8m). According to Power (1918, 213), remains of 'early church and graveyard' known locally as 'Carraig na Cille', though named 'Killawillin Church' on OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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