What is recorded here

Indicated is a square graveyard beside St. Paul's Church in County Cork, Ireland, where late 18th and early 19th century headstones still lean against its walls. It has become a car park, yet the buried people and their changing treatment remain visible through the stones, walls and reused ground.

On N side of Paul Street; roughly square graveyard (c. 25m N-S; c. 25m E-W) on S side of St. Paul's Church (CO074-03502-). Enclosed to N by church; to S by wall of cut limestone with fine entrance piers; to W by brick wall and to E by wall of random rubble. Now used as car park; in early 1970s gravestones on W side removed and redeposited on E side; headstones dating to late 18th/early 19th century now lean against E and S walls. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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