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Old Church Graveyard

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Old Church Graveyard
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Graveyard with collection of cut-stone markers, ob. 1760+. Set in landscaped grounds with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having drag edged cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping supporting replacement mild steel double gates.
A graveyard featuring an array of markers of artistic merit demonstrating good quality workmanship with markers of special interest including Classical-style funerary monuments identifying the burial plots of Reverends Richard Gibbons (d. 1847) and James Mac Manus (1802-47), both casualties of the Great Famine (1845-9): meanwhile, near-uniform headstones identify the so-called "Commonwealth War Graves" of Private Joseph McHale (d. 1918) and Sergeant James Patrick Nyland (d. 1943), casualties of the First World War (1914-8) and Second World War (1939-45) respectively.

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Photo: P L Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0