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In Kilmurry village, on NE side of crossroads. Subrectangular graveyard (c. 50m N-S; c. 70m E-W) enclosed by stone wall along road to S and SW, by earthen bank to N and E; along W side houses, facing road, back onto graveyard. Near SW corner, ruin of Kilmurry parish church (CO083-055002-). Still inuse; many late 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century headstones; earliest noted dated 1744. Some low uninscribed gravemarkers, also some chest tombs. According to local information, souterrains found across road from graveyard, c. 40m to S (CO083-055004-) and c. 50m to WSW (CO083-055001-) of church ruin.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
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