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Subject: Re: [Cork] Townland Rathduff, Grenagh, County Cork
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:00:01 EST

Jerry at writes:

<< Where would the Roman Catholic church and cemetery be located for
Rathduff? >>

Rathduff is the townland abutting the two Grenagh townlands (N. and S.)
immediately to their east. The RC church in Grenagh is easily the most convenient
church to the population of Rathduff - between a half mile and two miles,
depending where in Rathduff someone lived.

The RC church in the center of Grenagh town/village is St. Lachteen's.
Contact details are at >
http://www.catholicireland.net/parishes/parishdetails.php?ID=583 <. About a quarter mile north of the town center, on the west side
of the road, is a cemetery and the ruins of the medieval parish church.
According to the Archaeological Inventory of Mid Cork, this graveyard is "still in
occasional use; contains many 18th- and 19th-century headstones, and some
chest-tombs; also rows of low uninscribed grave-markers." There is no particular
name mentioned for the old parish church ruin or for the burial ground. I have
no information about other cemeteries in the area.

Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts

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