What is recorded here

Grave Yard stands on a Cork ridge above the eastern sea, holding rows of unnamed stones and two chest tombs beside its church. People have laid dead there since the 1760s, while a pyramidal marker and six gabled tombs break the plain field in their own directions. The sea still passes below, and the yard still receives the occasional dead, keeping its quiet company with the coast.

On top of a ridge overlooking coastline to E, roughly rectangular graveyard enclosed by stone-faced earthen bank. Many rows of low, uninscribed headstones; two chest tombs to E of church (CO151-024002-); earliest inscriptions date to 1760s. Pyramidal grave marker in SW quadrant; six gabled tombs to W of church. Still in occasional use. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

A 19th-century graveyard associated with a church; significance as a local historic burial site with early inscriptions.

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