What is recorded here

Graveyard in Turnerstown has vanished completely, leaving only a rectangular shadow of clay beside Whitechurch church where burial marks once lay. The field swallowed the dead and the church together, erasing edges that maps never learned. What remains is a flat tongue of earth in ordinary farmland, holding every name and bone it once kept.

On level ground overlooking a gentle E-facing slope in tillage. Not recorded on any edition of the OS mapping, and according to Fitzsymons (1906, 105), ‘… the surrounding burial-ground [ie. surrounding Whitechurch church (KD035-029001-)] is entirely obliterated.’ In 1986, the church was found to have been destroyed; an almost square patch of unploughed clay (18m E-W; 16m N-S) in a ploughed field marking its site, and no visible surface trace of an associated graveyard was noted(SMR file). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 December 2013

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