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Church (in Ruins), Graveyard

Church

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Half the church is gone and the other half has become a field. The graveyard still stands at the edge, dense with grass and shadow, holding what the building no longer can. Two wells wait outside the fence, unused or forgotten, while the pillar stone has vanished to stand elsewhere. What remains is not loss but redirection: a place that gave up its shape and continued giving in smaller ways.
Davies (ITA Survey 1940; Davies 1948, 81) noted the foundations of a small church at the SE end of a rectangular, graveyard. He also recorded a cross-slab (CV026-014003-) in the graveyard and suggested that the decorated pillar stone at the Denn Glebe Church of Ireland chapel (CV026-026002-), 1200m to NE, originated from here. Outside the perimeter at SW are two holy wells (CV026-014005-). Densely overgrown with vegetation. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

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