What is recorded here

Knocke graveyard circles a lost chapel on a NW-facing slope in County Meath, its stone wall breaking open toward a public road as if death itself refused to be fully enclosed. A 1689 headstone for Mary from Summerhill stands among later stones, suggesting the place collected lives long before the chapel disappeared from memory. Trees still grow inside the broken ring, casting shadows over what the wall never finished hiding.

Situated on a NW-facing slope of a prominent hillock, which was known as the Knock. The site of a chapel at Knocke (ME043-031----), which was a chapel-of-ease to Laracor (ME036-044----), is located within a subcircular graveyard (diam. c. 50-55m) defined by a masonry wall N-S-W, but the circuit is not completed W-N where the walls run to a NE-SW public road c. 60m to the NW. Trees grow inside the perimeter, and the headstones in the main date from the mid-18th century to the present, although the headstone of Mary from Summerhill (ME043-031002-) is dated 1689. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 March, 2015

Portal dolmen; likely dates to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Its location on a prominent hillock suggests a significant ritual or funerary function within the local prehistoric landscape.

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