Abbeystrewery Famine Cemetery

This graveyard, 1km west of Skibbereen beside the N71 road towards Schull, contains the mass grave of 8000 to 10,000 local people who died during the Famine, marked by a memorial of polished black stone. There's no parking on the main road; take the minor road opposite the river bridge and park near the upper entrance.

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