What is recorded here

Graveyard in Bestfield OR Dunganstown stood as a rectangular enclosure with a church near its north-east corner, recorded on the 1839 map before a railway and realigned road cut through its east side. The line reduced the place from roughly fifty to thirty-three metres wide, swallowing the south-east portion where graves may have slept. What remains is a boundary marked by loss, the kind of quiet violence done in the name of progress.

Depicted by a dashed line on the 1839 'OS 6-inch' map as a rectangular enclosure with a church (CW002-002001-) NE of centre. A road ran c. 50m roughly N-S to the E and a lane to a farm ran E-W along the northern boundary of the graveyard. By the latest 6-inch ed. a railway line had been constructed and the road alignment altered to run parallel with this section of the railway line, both road and railway line truncating the E side of the graveyard, particularly the SE portion (map dims. 56m N-S; 33-50m E-W). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 August 2011

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