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Rahill Church (in ruins), Graveyard

Graveyard

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Half a kilometre west of the main road, a D-shaped graveyard still holds its shape on the old maps, thirty-seven metres deep and forty-nine wide along a straight northern edge. The church that once closed that edge has thinned to a cross and scattered stone, yet the curve of the burial ground remains clear enough to walk. People may have stopped coming when the building fell, but the shape suggests they kept returning long after the roof was gone.
Shown on the 1839 and 1908 OS '6-inch maps'. The graveyard is depicted as being D-shaped (map dims. c. 37m N-S; c. 49m E-W along straight N side) with a church (CW001-003001-) running E-W forming the N boundary on the 1839 OS 6-inch map though on the 1908 map the church is depicted by a cross and the enclosing element of the graveyard itself forms the N boundary. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 August 2011

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