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Cooly Graveyard

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Cooly Graveyard
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What is recorded here

Graveyard arranged on rectangular plan c. 1700 with collection of inscribed eighteenth and nineteenth century stone gravemarkers (earliest dated 1702), together with uninscribed late-post medieval stone gravemarkers. Site bounded by random rubble stone walls with flat stone coping. Entered from west through square plan random rubble stone piers, with rendered pyramidal coping and strap-iron double gates. Random rubble steps forming stile over wall to south of gateway. Graveyard contains remains of two early churches and a single chambered mortuary or skull house with a corbelled stone roof. Tall wheeled cross, Cooly Cross, sited outside of entrance to graveyard.

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