What is recorded here

Although the OSL (Herity 2002, 60 (176)) record, ' … in the graveyard … there is still burial', the site is not named as a graveyard on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map. A well-maintained, roughly rectangular, roadside graveyard (dims L c. 50m NW-SE; Wth c. 30m NE-SW) contains a medieval church (KD019-014001-), the 'Flatesbury Monument' (KD019-014003-), a font (KD019-014004-), and a 19th century high cross marking the burials of the Bourke (Mayo) family, the most famous of whom was probably Richard Southwell, Sixth Earl of Mayo (1822-1872), who - apart from serving as Chief Secretary for Ireland three times - was appointed Viceroy of India, from where, following his assassination in 1872, he was apparently shipped home in a barrel of rum, and became known in village lore as 'The Pickled Earl". (Fitzgerald 1903-5, 257; Meagher 1979-80, 117) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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