What is recorded here

Burial Ground is a living square graveyard beside Springfield Castle in County Limerick, holding headstones from 1783 and later. Its stone wall, iron gate and remaining church shadows suggest a place where families kept returning long after the first burials. The ground still receives the dead, while the older stones wait patiently for rain, moss and memory.

In demesne of Springfield Castle (see LI054-005---). Square graveyard (L c. 50m) enclosed by stone wall, with recent extension to S and SW. Still in use and maintained. Small collection of 18th and 19th century headstones, the earliest noted dated 1783. Near NE corner E gable of former church (LI054-004001-); on line of N wall of church is late-18th century chest tomb. No visible surface trace of C of I church which stood in NW corner of graveyard; limestone gate piers with iron gate in this corner probably contemporary with church. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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