Graveyard in Kilmurry, County Cork

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What is recorded here

On N side of road; roughly wedge-shaped graveyard (c. 70m E-W; c. 25m N-S at W end, very narrow at E end) enclosed by stone wall. Still in occasional use; mainly late 18th- and 19th-century headstones, the earliest noted dated 1766; also low uninscribed gravemarkers. In NW quadrant, ruins of chapel-of-ease for Inishcarra parish (9506); ground slopes noticeably down from church.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO061-122001

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Aghabullogue GAA / EchoLive source; photographer not named, www.echolive.ie

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