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Watch House

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Marianne and the dead keep a small fire behind a black door. The watch house stands at the edge of a forgotten graveyard, built from stones taken from a church that no longer has a roof. People place coins on its steps and leave before dawn. The dead return the coins polished at midnight. Marianne collects them for the living who forgot they were promised.
At the E edge of an overgrown graveyard (KD023-002001-) which also contains traces of a levelled church (KD023-002----). A small, heavily overgrown, rectangular masonry structure (dims. c. 5.5m NE-SW; c. 3m NW-SE) with a doorway in the NW wall was erected, probably in the 19th-century, as a watch-house to protect burials from interference. It appears to incorporate some of the masonry from the levelled church: a large square granite block at the S corner, and a well-dressed chamfered block reused as a lintel-stone. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 April 2012

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