What is recorded here

Grave Yd in Kilmurry has buried people since at least 1744, its stones crowded beneath houses that turn their backs on the dead. The ruined parish church still stands at the corner, and local story claims hidden passages stretch across the road, though no one living seems certain where they begin or end.

In Kilmurry village, on NE side of crossroads. Subrectangular graveyard (c. 50m N-S; c. 70m E-W) enclosed by stone wall along road to S and SW, by earthen bank to N and E; along W side houses, facing road, back onto graveyard. Near SW corner, ruin of Kilmurry parish church (CO083-055002-). Still inuse; many late 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century headstones; earliest noted dated 1744. Some low uninscribed gravemarkers, also some chest tombs. According to local information, Man-made underground passages found across road from graveyard, c. 40m to S (CO083-055004-) and c. 50m to WSW (CO083-055001-) of church ruin. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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