What is recorded here
Two bullaun stones lie hidden in a field clearance pile north of the headstones, waiting to be found rather than displayed. They sit beside a graveyard where nineteenth-century markers cluster and a broken castle window frame rests on the ground. The stones may have marked a older worship place before the castle rose, suggesting human hands shaped that field for devotion long before records named it.
Situated on a slight rise in undulating countryside. A large irregularly shaped graveyard (OF007-051) enclosed by a drystone wall with 19th-century headstones concentrated in its S sector. A small rectangular drystone-walled enclosure to the SE may represent a single family burial plot. Two bullaun stones (OF007-052001/002-) are located in a pile of field clearance stones to the N of the headstones. A chamfered and rebated jambstone of a late medieval limestone window can be seen lying on the ground immediately N of the headstones. This fragment may have come from the nearby castle ruins (OF007-051) located in the field to the SW of the graveyard.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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