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Graveyard in Killybrone

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Graveyard in Killybrone
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This record refers to a graveyard associated with a church (MA015-060001-) which gave Killybrone townland its name. The exact location of the church and graveyard is in doubt. O'Donovan in the 1838 OS Letters recorded that this church, which was demolished about five years before his visit to the area, was located…

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This record refers to a graveyard associated with a church (MA015-060001-) which gave Killybrone townland its name. The exact location of the church and graveyard is in doubt. O'Donovan in the 1838 OS Letters recorded that this church, which was demolished about five years before his visit to the area, was located 'about six perches to the north of a fort that is nearly destroyed' and occupied ‘the highest part of this rising ground which very well merits the name of Tulach...’ (O’Flanagan 1927, 287-8 (124)). The church and graveyard were incorrectly listed in the RMP (1997) at IG co-ordinates 11944 33122 (ITM 519406 831229), which placed them downslope and to N of a rath (MA015-046----), named 'Rathwanowen' on the 1922 OS 6-inch map, a location not in keeping with O’Donovan description. According to local tradition, the church was located upslope to S of this rath, somewhere in the vicinity of ITM 519466 830984. The latter location appears to fit O’Donovan’s location more accurately, placing it as it does on the summit of the ridge and close to a destroyed ringfort (MA015-048---), Mullaghorn Fort. However, no trace of the church or graveyard is evident on the ridge top, and the exact location of both remains unknown.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MA015-060002

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  • N Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Killala GAA Club, via Connaught Telegraph; individual photographer not named, www.con-telegraph.ie
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