Tors Cove

At the top of this eroding hill face is a nearly 200 year old cemetery with at least five graves marked with formal headstones and between 18 and 23 marked with small natural stones.

Tors Cove

Looking north across the Tors Cove eroding cemetery, the community fish plant is the red building in the background.

Tors Cove

This is the earliest headstone in the cemetery; it dates to 1812.

Tors Cove

This headstone appears to be locally made. There is no legible text on this headstone.

Tors Cove

This headstone marks the gravesite of Frances Lonergan. It appears to be locally made and dates to 1826.

Tors Cove

One of the nearly twenty small, natural, unmarked stones that indicate a burial. It is not clear if the stones mark both the head and foot of a grave or just the head. These graves may pre-date the 1812 headstone.

Tors Cove

This is a concrete slab that once held up a large wooden cross which marked the cemetery. The vertical portion of the cross is visible in the grass just beyond the concrete.

 

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