What is recorded here

Fr. Callary erected the stone cross in 1918, decades after the unnamed poor stopped arriving, finally giving Puttaghan a visible memory. The graveyard occupies an old ringfort on a north-facing slope, its raised banks once marking sacred ground before becoming a dump for those without coin. Charles Ward alone received a named cross beside the anonymous dead, a small rebellion against forgetting. The site still holds what county history discarded: people so poor they vanished from every record except the dirt itself.

Located on N facing slope of a hill in undulating pasture land with large impressive Motte (OF012-006001-) to the E. In the W sector of the graveyard here are the grass covered remains of N and E portions of a wall of roughly faced stones which may be the remains of a possible church (OF012-005001-) (O'Flanagan 1927, 30). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Medieval burial ground, likely 12th to 16th century, associated with a motte-and-bailey settlement. Its significance lies in its potential connection to the medieval defensive and domestic landscape of the region.

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