Graveyard in Mill-Land, County Cork

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What is recorded here

On W side of road; subrectangular graveyard (60m E-W; 50m N-S) enclosed by stone wall; extended to S about 1840 to accommodate newly built C of I church. Still in use; earliest inscribed headstones noted date to 1770s; many low uninscribed grave markers. In centre ruins of ancient parish church of Ballymartle (CO098-02702-). C of I church built between 1837 and 1842: low-gabled rectangular church with plain buttresses on N and S walls flanking windows. Vestry/lobby added at W end and four-sided apse attached to E gable in 1870s (Cole 1903, 17); still in use.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO098-027001

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