What is recorded here

Death in Funshog wore a plain cross and temporary walls. A burial chamber stood beside the church until people took it apart, scattered the stones and buried the dead elsewhere. The chamber is gone, but its cross and bones still exist. They left the field, entered a museum and became a thing other people can point at. The dead did not disappear. They changed the shape of the place and continued inside it.

The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 21 June 2012 Revised by: Claire Breen A cross-slab (LH017-059002-) and mortar found with human bones in Funshog townland in the nineteenth century may have originally come from the church (LH017-059001-). The slab has a plain, almost equal-armed cross on one side only (JRSAI 1973, 197-9). They are now in the National Museum, Dublin. (CLAJ 1944, 280)

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