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What is recorded here

Forty numbered metal crosses lean against the western stone wall, marking unnamed paupers buried beneath grass and mature deciduous trees in County Limerick. The rectangular ground sits on a west-facing slope beside a public road, entered through cut-stone piers that lead past a Celtic cross on a pedestal. Poor people likely rested here without individual headstones, relying only on wall-mounted numbers to distinguish one life from another.

On W-facing slope; bounded by public road to W. Rectangular area (50m N-S; 22m E-W) enclosed by well-built stone wall along W and N sides (H1.5m) and by modern concrete block wall to E and S. Entrance is through two cut-stone piers near S end of W wall, from which pathway leads to celtic cross on pedestal. Interior is under grass with mature deciduous around edges. There are some 40 numbered metal crosses resting against inner face of W wall, immediately S of entrance. This was "a pauper's graveyard" according to local information; not marked on 1841 OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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