What is recorded here

Half a kilometre north of the Boyne, a forgotten church may still stand buried under Townparks North. St Patrick is said to have founded it at Ath Truim, and a broad clay-filled ditch cut through the ground beside the graveyard suggests an enclosure older than any recorded building. Nothing shining or dated has emerged from the soil, leaving the place suspended between faith and fantasy.

Situated at the crest of a S-facing slope with a WNW-ESE section of the River Boyne c. 250m to the S. The church founded by St Patrick at Ath Truim may have been on the site of the later medieval parish church (ME036-048012-). A section cut through what was probably an E-W fosse or ditch (Wth c. 5m; D 1.1m) under Loman St just W of the graveyard (ME036-048051-) showed two clay fills but produced no artefacts (Meenan 1996, 6, 1997), and raises the tantalizing possibility that it is an a-ceramic and pre Anglo-Norman feature, possibly part of an ecclesiastical enclosure. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 April, 2015

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