What is recorded here

Burial Ground is a walled graveyard in County Dublin, Ireland, holding the foundations of a medieval parish church and grave markers stretching back to John Thornton in 1707. Its stone wall, built during 1840s landlord improvements, still frames a space where local story claims famine or plague once overflowed into the adjoining Church Field, though test excavation does not support that part. The quernstone at the eastern stile and the raised ground give the place a lived-in, forgotten weight, as if burial, memory and change of ownership all still press against the same narrow field.

A walled graveyard (max. L 40m, Wth 30m) located in the NE quadrant of an ecclesiastical enclosure (DU005-024003-). Contains the foundations of a medieval parish church (DU005-024001-). It is artificially raised above the surrounding ground level and is defined by a stone masonry wall that encompasses a coffin sill. Entrance steps were added in 2009. There are many low grave markers in the graveyard, some with no memorials. The oldest are in the W including one that commemorates John Thornton 1707. The wall enclosing the church and graveyard was built in 1840s as part of landlord improvements. Local folklore has it that during a plague or famine St Movee’s burial ground was full to overflowing, and the people were forced to bury their dead in the adjoining field, now known as the Church Field. Test excavation in that adjacent field appears to refute this, however (Frazer, 2007). A quernstone is located along the eastern wall at the base of the stile. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 14 November 2014

A walled medieval burial ground associated with a parish church; significance lies in its ecclesiastical and funerary context.

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