What is recorded here

Grave Yard (Disused) is a rectangular graveyard in County Cork, Ireland, measuring 34m north-south and 23m east-west. It sits inside an early ecclesiastical enclosure and holds low uninscribed markers, loose stones, a taller marker beside a ruined church, an ogham stone and a bullaun. The dead may have been buried there before the church fell into ruin, while the living kept using the stones for prayer or marking identity.

Rectangular yard (34m N-S; 23m E-W) in centre of early ecclesiastical enclosure (CO122-075001-); enclosed by dry-stone wall (H 1.3m; wall thickness 1.1m). A few low, uninscribed grave markers (H c. 0.3m); with numerous loose stones throughout; tall grave marker (H 0.5m) to E of ruined church (CO122-075005-) which stands in S half; ogham stone (CO122-075004-) and bullaun (CO122-109---) in N half. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Early medieval Christian burial ground, likely 7th–10th century; associated with a monastic or ecclesiastical site. Its significance lies in providing evidence of early Christian funerary practices and settlement in the region.

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