Ecclesiastical enclosure in Kilvahan

Ecclesiastical enclosure

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Reference to an enclosure here (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 188, 189). No visible surface remains. Described in the History of Queens County as 'The graveyard of Kilvahan occupies an elevated situation and its surrounded by a nearly circular fosse, which was formerly entered by an old road leading from the adjoining village of Moneeenafullagh, the little marshy spot of blood' on the direction from Ballyknockan Castle. The passage of funeral processions to the cemetery (LA018-017002-), at present, leads along a headland of the adjacent field to the boreen, where traces of the old road (LA018-017004-) are to be seen. Of late a wall of enclosure has been built around the cemetery by the Poor Law Guardians. Formerly and indeed to the beginning of the present century, an old ruined church (LA018-017001-) was to be seen within the burial enclosure of Kilvahan. From a perfect local knowledge of the spot, the writer has not been able to trace a single vetsige of those ancient walls' (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 189).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA018-017003

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