What is recorded here

Kilcornan in Dunkellin Bay held a hidden graveyard beside its medieval church, waiting for restoration workers to uncover bones near the south wall and a complete skeleton east of the doorway in 1983. The dead had clustered around the building like shadows, filling the east gable and north wall with scattered remains. No map or earlier account marked the graves, suggesting the community buried its own without warning the wider world. The church stood innocent above a crowded darkness, preserving what record-keeping forgot.

Associated with a medieval church (GA095-059----). During the course of restoration works around the church in 1983 human bones were found near the S wall and one complete skeleton was uncovered to the E of the doorway. Scatterings of bones were also noted under the window in the E gable and along the N wall. These probably indicate the presence of a graveyard around the church though one is not recorded on the OS 6-inch maps and was not recorded by Redington (1912, 179-80) or O’Flanagan (1927, Vol. 1, 289, 291). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 21 February 2020

Medieval graveyard; associated with a church and containing human remains dating to the medieval period. Its significance lies in its connection to the religious and burial practices of the local medieval community.

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