What is recorded here

Burial Ground in Dromcolliher, County Limerick, holds graves inside the ruined parish church itself, with headstones dated 1766 and 1769 marking some of its oldest known burials. The compact rectangle at the village edge feels less like a forgotten field and more like a room where people kept returning, laying the dead beneath what remained of their own worship.

At SW edge of Dromcolliher village, on E side of road. Roughly rectangular graveyard (c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S), with recent extension to S. Near centre is fragmentary ruin of Dromcolliher parish church (LI054-040002-); interior of church filled with burial plots: on line of W gable is headstone dated 1769 whilst just inside line of E gable is one dated 1766 (oldest noted headstone); just N of church are series of late- 18th century headstones. Large vaulted tomb at NW corner of graveyard, by entrance gate, and a smaller tomb overlying part of N wall of church dated 1839. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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