What is recorded here

Indicated is a graveyard at the south end of a small ridge in County Monaghan, where a buried church and hundreds of dead have watched the living pass since the early 1700s. Its walls still stand around an uneven bed of thrown earth, marking the exact place where Kilmore’s parish once gathered. To walk there now is to step into a room without a roof, where the dead are not forgotten but arranged, remembered and still doing their quiet work.

Situated at the S end of a small N-S ridge or spur. The site of the parish church of Kilmore (MO009-035001-) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 100m N-S; c. 40-45m E-W) defined by masonry walls with a berm (Wth 2-4m) inside the walls on the level ground N of the present Church of Ireland church. The berm was probably created when the walls were built and the material thrown inwards creating an uneven, raised (H 0.8m at N to 1.5-2.5m generally) graveyard. A bullaun stone (MO009-035003-) is inside the perimeter at N. The headstone inscriptions have been recorded and date generally from 1722 to c. 1900 (Mulligan 1983; Brindley 1988). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 15 November, 2016

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