Relickoran

Reilig Ódhráin / Odráin's Cemetery

This site is comprised of two enclosures with a leacht inside each of them. There is evidence that the large enclosure was used as a graveyard. It has been suggested that this may have been the original lay cemetery. A total of four cross slabs and one beautiful cross inscribed pillar were located at the site but these have all been removed to the old schoolhouse for safe keeping. I wish the O.P.W. would place replicas of the slabs in the original positions as some of the character and beauty of the site has been lost without them in situ. The leacht in the first image below, was reconstructed and moved slightly inland during excavations in 2000, the cliff-edge had been eroding. The southern sides of both of the enclosures are open, but again this may have been caused by erosion or storm damage.

The views across the ocean to the mainland are really stunning.