What is recorded here

Grave Yard stands on a Cork hillside beside a road, still receiving the dead after centuries of burial. Its rectangular stones mark the vanished parish church of Caherlag, whose walls collapsed before human memory faded. The living may have walked past ruins while the dead remained steady beneath the soil, waiting for people to return and remember them.

On top of a hill, on W side of road; roughly rectangular graveyard (c. 80m SW-NE; c. 50m NW-SE); still in use. Many late 18th and 19th century headstones on S side. No visible surface trace of church (CO075-005002-), the N and E wall of which are shown on 1902 OS 6-inch map and which Power (1918, 33) described as 'almost completely disappeared'; ancient parish church of Caherlag; in 1700 (Brady 1863, vol. 1, 50) described as 'built with stone and clay; the walls half down'. 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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