What is recorded here

Dressed limestone fragments from St Mary's Abbey now hide in a rockery at St Mary's Roman Catholic church in Navan after spending unknown years at St Patrick’s Classical School. Triskels, eight-petal flowers and divided circles still press out of the stone surfaces, preserving crafts from a lost abbey chamber. People may have walked past these pieces for decades before recognising them as monastery remains rather than ordinary garden rocks.

Some dressed stones that were kept for a period at St Patrick’s Classical School (ME025-023002-) are now in a rockery at St Mary's Roman Catholic church in Navan where they are attributed to St Mary's Abbey (ME025-024----). The limestone spandrel (dims 0.57m x 0.36m; T 0.2m) of a double ogee-headed window is decorated with three triskels in relief on one side and star shapes in relief on the other. A triangular piece of limestone (dims 0.64m x 0.37m; T 0.21m) with a raised circle divided into six may be the apex of a wall monument. Some smaller stones carry fragments of an inscription. One (H 0.51m; Wth 0.42m; T 0.09m) is a spandrel from a doorway with a wheel of eight divisions and three lobed designs within a circle. Another (H 0.37m; Wth 0.56m; T 0.2m) is a cusped ogee-headed spandrel from a twin-light window with decoration in false relief on both faces. One face has encircled cusped triskelia and the other has triangular spandrels with eight-petal flowers. A rectangular fragment has a boxed ogee-headed design. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 December, 2014 Amended: 29 March 2023

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