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Graveyard or cemetery in Ray

Graveyard/cemetery
Graveyard or cemetery in Ray
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Graveyard on trapezoidal plan with fieldstone boundary wall, containing pre-1700 church in ruins, large ringed cross, and eighteenth and nineteenth-century grave-markers. Rubble stone walls with ashlar quoins to church with four round-headed windows with splayed reveals. Pointed-arch doorway with stop-chamfered jambs.
A small rural graveyard with the remains of a church that was repaired or rebuilt post-1622. It continued in use until the new church of Saint Paul was built in 1805. It is now a National Monument and has been a site of religious significance for over a thousand years.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 40902527

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Pictures: VisionsofthePast, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Ronnie Nijboer, Wikimedia Commons · CC0; Vadim Manuylov, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Rossographer, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; David Baird, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; C.B.Doak (user Zorba the Geek ), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Anne Burgess, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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