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Burial ground in Ballyloo

Burial ground

What is recorded here

Ballyloo hides a burial ground beneath its ordinary soil, remembered only through local tradition rather than stone or marker. People may have laid their dead there before written history arrived, trusting the earth to keep what witness had forgotten. The absence of proof does not empty the place; it redirects certainty into imagination, forcing us to picture the lives that ended there and the hands that buried them.
Local tradition of a burial ground at this location. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

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