What is recorded here

In Kilfarney Wood stands Rillig, an ancient graveyard where human bones keep turning up despite the land no longer looking like a cemetery. A fence bends through the site, splitting it between Kilfarney and Oldtown as if marking a boundary rather than a grave. The dead may still be moving beneath the soil, refusing to stay buried under the living world’s forgetfulness.

According to Carrigan (1905, 466), in 'Kilfarney "Wood" is an ancient churchyard called Rillig, in which human bones have been often upturned, though the place now presents scarcely any appearance of a cemetery. The fence separating Kilfarney from Oldtown runs, in a slight very curious bend, right through the original Rilllig, a part only of which it leaves in the former townland, and the remainder, resembling a small irregular mound, in the later'. The precise location of the graveyard and its associated church (KK014-082001-) is unknown within the townland. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 March 2016

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