What is recorded here

Grave Yard stands in Charleville, County Cork, holding early nineteenth to mid twentieth century headstones and vaults beside an off-centre Church of Ireland building. When the living turned the ground into a park in the late 1960s, they moved the stones along the enclosing walls rather than erasing them, creating a crowded gallery where the dead march past the grass. That practical cruelty suggests the community wanted to keep remembering without stopping the place from being used.

This graveyard is referred to in the 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork - vol. 4 North Cork' (2000, 622-3) under the entry (no. 14765) for a church (CO002-065002-). The reference is as follows: In Charleville. Rectangular graveyard (c. 100m ENE-WSW; c. 40m NNE-SSW), enclosed by stone walls with C of I church (CO002-06502-) off centre to ENE. Early 19th to mid 20th century headstones and vaults, headstones relocated along enclosing stone walls when graveyard turned into park in late 1960s. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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