What is recorded here

Grave Yard stands atop a Cork hillock, overlooking the Lee River through pasture and shadow. Its pentagonal edge holds late-medieval church ruins, a relocated bullaun stone, and rows of low unseen graves. The last recorded burial came in 1985, yet the oldest readable stone marks 1782, leaving centuries of names erased beneath the grass.

In pasture, atop hillock; overlooking Lee River to N. Access through field from road to W. Roughly pentagonal-shaped raised area (c. 40m E-W; c. 30m N-S), defined by low scarp (H c. 0.5m), enclosed within subcircular tree-lined fence lying c. 2m outside line of scarp; in 1700 it was uncertain which of these defined 'the bounds of the churchyard' (Lunham 1909, 24). Ruins of late-medieval parish church of Macloneigh (CO071-082002-) just inside scarp to N. Bullaun stone (CO071-081----) relocated inside fence to S. Most recent burial dated 1985; earliest inscribed headstone noted dated 1782; many low uninscribed gravemarkers. 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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