What is recorded here

Grave Yd is a buried graveyard in County Cork, Ireland, where a stone wall still marks the edge of an early church. The 1842 map drew a rectangular yard beside the building, but pasture and time have swallowed most of it. What remains is a low scarped ridge and fragments of wall, hinting that people once walked here to bury their dead and tend a sacred place.

In pasture, in centre of early ecclesiastical enclosure (13886). Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as rectangular graveyard (c. 45m NW-SE; c. 28m SW-NE) defined by broken line; church (14440) S of centre on E-W axis. Roughly trapezoidal area (c. 22m E-W; c. 10m max. N-S) enclosed by stone wall. North wall of enclosure joins E and W gables of church close to S ends; S wall of church forms part of N side. Outside enclosed area, raised area defined by scarped edge (H c. 1m), continuing line of graveyard wall on W side for c. 10m to N, turning E and extending c. 3m outside N and E walls of church, before meeting N wall of graveyard; this is sole visible remains of N half of graveyard as shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Early medieval Christian burial ground, likely 7th–10th century. Associated with an ecclesiastical site, indicating a local centre of religious activity in the medieval period.

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