What is recorded here

Indicated is a raised coastal graveyard between Skerries and Loughshinny Village, holding an oval strip of land where the ground slopes toward the remains of a church. Its eastern edge is called Stranger's bank, a name that suggests people once came from elsewhere and were still accepted into the same dark soil. The place keeps both familiar lives and unfamiliar ones, marking the coast as a boundary where memory, loss and arrival meet.

This graveyard is located in a raised position off the coast road between Skerries and Loughshinny Village. It encloses an oval area (dims. E-W 60m, N-S 40m). The graveyard was extended to the north east in the 1930's. and the walls have been rebuilt with concrete breeze blocks. An area in the east of the graveyard is known as 'Stranger's bank'. The ground slopes up slightly to the remains of a church (DU008-004001-). Grave memorials dating from the 18-19th century including that of John Connors of Rush, an 18th century smuggler known as 'Jack the Bachelor' (Fingal Historic Graves Project 2008). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 5 December 2014

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