What is recorded here

Grave Yd (Site of) is a rectangular graveyard in County Cork, Ireland, holding unmarked bones beside a ruined church. An earth and stone bank still surrounds the small burial area, preserving a quiet religious boundary from an earlier time. A plough once lifted a stone slab marked IHS from the field beside it, proving that death and devotion still surface beneath ordinary work.

At centre of early ecclesiastical enclosure (CO123-031001-) and immediately to S of ruined church (CO123-031002-). Rectangular area (25m E-W; 14m N-S) enclosed by earth and stone bank; no gravemarkers. Some bones and stone slab with IHS inscribed, found during ploughing in field to E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

A rectangular early medieval burial enclosure, likely associated with a Christian cemetery; its location near a ruined church suggests ecclesiastical and community significance in the early medieval period.

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