What is recorded here

Grave Yard preserves the Church of the Bushes inside a rectangular stone boundary near County Limerick, where an older oval ecclesiastical enclosure still shapes the land. The name Cill Fhionachta points to Fionachta, believed to have been a saint, while the surviving wall marks a later boundary around a much older faith. Dead people may have slept beneath soil that once ringed a wooden or stone church, their names lost but their distance from the living never forgotten.

Medieval church site (LI022-057001-) known locally as 'Teampull na Sceac', or 'Church of the Bushes' stood in the centre of a rectangular shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 33m N-S x 49m E-W) enclosed by a post-1700 stone wall with entrance gate in centre of W wall. The church and graveyard lie in the S quadrant of a large oval-shaped ecclesiastical enclosure (LI022-057003-). The Ordnance Survey letters recorded that the name of this parish is in 'Irish Cill Fhionachta which signifies the Cell or Church of Fionachta [Fionshneachta], who is believed to have been a Saint' (OSL, 148). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 03 January 2019

Medieval Christian burial ground associated with a 13th- to 14th-century church; significant as a rural ecclesiastical site reflecting Gaelic monastic traditions in the region.

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