What is recorded here

Kilcaragh is a graveyard hidden beneath a hill of pasture, not a marked field of stones. J. O'Donovan wrote around 1840 that the possible parish church had no graveyard, which is unusual because burial usually belongs beside the place where a community prayed. The absence may have been oversight, change or loss; it could also mean the dead were placed somewhere the surface no longer gives back.

Situated on a knoll of rock outcrop on top of a hill. The possible parish church of Kilcaragh (WA018-011001-) apparently had no graveyard according to J. O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1929, 11), which would be most unusual. Nothing is visible at ground level in pasture. (Power 1890-91, 478) O'Flanagan, M. (Compiler) (1929) Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Waterford collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1841. Typescript. Bray. Power, Rev. P. (1890-91) The ancient ruined churches of Co. Warterford. JRSAI 20-21, 475-82. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 08 February 2011

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