What is recorded here

Carrigaline’s ancient parish church stood above seventy feet long, well slated and crowded with seats by 1700. That much space suggests a busy local faith rather than a tiny isolated chapel. The building is gone now, but the graveyard remains. Walking among those buried markers, you can still picture the lost roof, the wooden pews and the sound of voices carrying through a room large enough to hold a whole neighbourhood.

In graveyard (CO087-036001-). The site of the ancient parish church of Carrigaline, described in 1700 as 'above 70 foot long....well slated and well furnished with seats' (Lunham 1909, 169-70). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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