What is recorded here
Killinraghty Big holds a grass-covered graveyard where lintelled graves surfaced during the 1950s, marking the lost church called Killfinnerty. Earth and stone banks still draw a rectangular border on the gentle slope, enclosing a D-shaped rise that may have marked the altar or entrance. The dead remain beneath ordinary grass, waiting for rain, foot traffic and memory to acknowledge them again.
On a gentle S-facing slope. Human remains in lintelled graves were discovered during the 1950s at the site of a church (RO034-059001-), locally called Killfinnerty (NMI file). The burials were within a grass-covered rectangular area (dims c. 35m ENE-WSW; c. 18m NNW-SSE) that is still extant. It is defined by earth and stone banks (Wth 2m; H 0.3m) with a raised D-shaped area (dims 10m NW-SE; 4.5m NE-SW; H 0.2m) against the S side of a NW-SE field bank which overlies the interior.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 24 August 2010
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