What is recorded here

Indicated is a hilltop graveyard in County Mayo where the dead have watched the surrounding pastureland for centuries. Its square stone boundary holds a ruined medieval church and rows of unnamed markers, while the removed northern wall still shows through thicker grass. The place expands northward as living people keep claiming it, turning ancient loss into an ongoing conversation between the soil and the sky.

Located on top of a hill, with excellent views in all directions of the surrounding pastureland. The roughly square graveyard (36.8m E-W; c. 36m N-S) is enclosed by a mortared stone wall (Wth 0.4m; H 1.2m), probably 18th/19th-century in date. In the second half of the 20th-century the N wall and the N end of the W wall were removed to allow a modern expansion of the graveyard to N. The line of the removed walls is still evident as a cropmark of thicker vegetation growth. There is a ruined medieval church (MA039-015001-) in the SW quadrant. The greatest density of graves is to S and E of the church where 18th- and 19th-century graveslabs and headstones are interspersed with numerous low uninscribed informal stone grave markers, many arranged in N-S rows. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 March 2018

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