Passed on from Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts Here's a bit of information on the Kilpatrick burial ground (it's actually in Kilpatrick townland, just "across the road" from the Willowhill/Kilpatrick townland boundary). The location is clearly shown on Discovery map 87, and identified by the letters, in red, "ch".....marking the site of the graveyard which contains the scant ruins of the late medieval parish church of Kilpatrick. The church ruin has walls only 4 or 5 feet high remaining, and is located at the N end of the graveyard. Here is the description of the cemetery from the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork -Vol 2, East and South Cork. The "road" reference is to the side road (which eventually leads to Tracton) off of the Carrigaline to Minane Bridge road. "On E side of road, land falls away steeply to E; rectangular graveyard (c. 40m N-S; c. 25m E-W) enclosed to E, S and W by stone-faced earthen bank and to N by stone wall and ruined parish church of Kilpatrick; partially overgrown. Filled with N-S rows of low uninscribed grave markers; three inscribed headstones, one dated 1790, two recent." The above information was based on a visit to the site by archaeologists in June 1991, so there may have been more burials since that time. That's about it. Mitchell's book, A Guide to Irish Churches and Graveyards, also mentions the location, but has no maps or grid coordinates - just the listing of the townland of Kilpatrick. ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

Thank you Dan and Peter, Your information adds to my understanding of my great grand mother Catherine (Meskill) Sullivan and her parents David Meskill and Ellen (Cronan) Meskill .David Meskill and his family were evicted from their farm in the townland of Willowhill in the civil parish of Kilpatrick while their children were young, probably before 1850. Every bit counts. All the best. David Campbell Ottawa [email protected] wrote: Passed on from Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts Here's a bit of information on the Kilpatrick burial ground (it's actually in Kilpatrick townland, just "across the road" from the Willowhill/Kilpatrick townland boundary). The location is clearly shown on Discovery map 87, and identified by the letters, in red, "ch".....marking the site of the graveyard which contains the scant ruins of the late medieval parish church of Kilpatrick. The church ruin has walls only 4 or 5 feet high remaining, and is located at the N end of the graveyard. Here is the description of the cemetery from the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork -Vol 2, East and South Cork. The "road" reference is to the side road (which eventually leads to Tracton) off of the Carrigaline to Minane Bridge road. "On E side of road, land falls away steeply to E; rectangular graveyard (c. 40m N-S; c. 25m E-W) enclosed to E, S and W by stone-faced earthen bank and to N by stone wall and ruined parish church of Kilpatrick; partially overgrown. Filled with N-S rows of low uninscribed grave markers; three inscribed headstones, one dated 1790, two recent." The above information was based on a visit to the site by archaeologists in June 1991, so there may have been more burials since that time. That's about it. Mitchell's book, A Guide to Irish Churches and Graveyards, also mentions the location, but has no maps or grid coordinates - just the listing of the townland of Kilpatrick. ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message