What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Limerick packs nearly a century of buried life around the ruined Kilfergus church, where the Knights of Glin kept their vault from 1400 to 1866. The dense stones, gabled tombs and cracked church walls suggest a place where memory itself became so crowded it needed measuring in metres rather than years.

Graveyard is irregular in plan (c. 95m N-S; c. 80m E-W) bounded by recently-built wall and gateway along roadside to SW, and elsewhere by repaired stone wall. To N-of-centre is ruin of late-medieval parish church of Kilfergus (LI018-001002-). Graveyard, including interior of church, densely packed with burials. Just inside E wall of church is burial vault of Knights of Glin "1400-1866"; large uninscribed gabled tomb just SW of church; another smaller gabled tomb just outside E wall of church dated 1799. Inscribed headstones date from late 19th century. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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