Historic Graves plan at Caherlag gives community history a new life
But as part of a community initiative, the living are trickling back to ancient graveyards countrywide, to dig out information and document what they find.
At Caherlag graveyard in Glounthaune parish, a few miles east of Cork city, this work is well underway. More than 900 years old, the burial site was a dangerous place two years ago, a place where nature had taken over, with undergrowth hiding unexpected dips and hollows, where old graves had caved in.
