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Graveyard in Camcloon (upperwoods By.)

Graveyard

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Camcloon (upperwoods By.) holds a vanished graveyard beneath Bunny Hill, where potato trenches repeatedly threw up human bones before tillage erased the site. The crooked meadow kept a church older than living memory, reducing sacred death to surprising debris in ordinary farm work.
Unlocated church within townland that Carrigan states was 'In Camclone (the crooked or curved meadow) there was a church in the earliest times. There has been no trace of this church in living memory, but its site is still known, in Camclone, in a field called 'Bunny Hill'. The 'Bunny Hill' is now all under tillage and the graveyard destroyed; but formerly, during the trenching of the potatoes or wheat growing here, human bones were invariably thrown up. James Peters of Camclone (1813-1900) says it was a 'churchyard' was on the 'Bunny Hill' (Carrigan 1905, vol 2, 176-7). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

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