Curraghkippane Cemetery

Curraghkippane Cemetery or Currykippane Cemetery (Irish: Reilig Churrach Cheapáin), also known as St Mary's Cemetery, is a cemetery in Clogheen in the Kerry Pike area west of Cork in Ireland. The cemetery site, in use since at least the medieval period, overlooks Carrigrohane and the western part of Cork city, the River Lee valley, and the eastern part of Ballincollig. The Curraghkippane name is a metonymy, as its meaning used to apply to the entire area on the hill, but was reduced to refer to the cemetery alone. The wider area, including the townland to the east inclusive of the cemetery, has been thereafter referred to as Mount Desert. There are ruins of an old church on the cemetery, of which only the eastern gable and traces of a ringfort surrounding the structure remain. An ancient church at the site can be traced to 13th century, and it may have been destroyed and reduced to the current ruin as early as 17th century. The first headstones are believed to have been erected in 1730, and among those buried in the graveyard are Edward O'Callaghan, a lieutenant of the British Navy who died in 1808, and Jerome Collins, an arctic explorer and meteorologist from Cork who died in 1881 but was buried only much later in 1884. While most headstones in Curraghkippane, as in many old graveyards, face east, that of Collins with a large Celtic cross faces North to commemorate his ill-fa

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