What is recorded here
Killagholehane graveyard in County Limerick still receives the dead beside its roofless medieval church, bounded by earthen bank and a stream that laps at the north and east like a living edge. The square plot measures forty metres across, holds a mid-nineteenth-century chest tomb and later headstones, and reaches the world through a southern gate at the end of an avenue. It is small enough to walk in minutes yet old enough to make those minutes feel watched.
Square graveyard (L c. 40m) enclosed by earthen bank, with stream immediately outside bank on N and E sides, with modern entrance gate on S side. Gate approached by path from avenue to S. In occasional use and maintained; just NE of centre roofless ruin of medieval parish church of Killagholehane (LI054-033001-). Single chest tomb dated to mid-19th century; earliest headstones noted late-19th century.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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