What is recorded here

Ivy strangles the west gable where a medieval font keeps its oval basin inside an abandoned church. The building dates from the late twelfth or early thirteenth century, though later doorways cut through its northern and southern walls. Grave markers scatter the surrounding ground, suggesting that baptism and burial shared one small stone room long before the roof disappeared.

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: 17 July 2007 Undivided nave and chancel (max. dims. 11m by 5m), built of roughly coursed limestone blocks and greywacke, now completely covered with ivy. It is situated downslope to the N of Richardstown tower house (LH017-092----). The W gable is the only substantial portion surviving and it has a single-light window with round-headed arch stone and moulded sandstone jambs which are almost certainly early medieval, possibly late twelfth century. The remains of opposing doorways in the N and S walls at the W end indicate a building of fifteenth- or sixteenth-century date. Therefore the church appears to have been built in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century and altered in late medieval times. There are the remains of a medieval font with an oval-shaped basin in the W end of the church, and several pieces of cut stone in the surrounding graveyard which are used as grave-markers. (Leslie 1908, 130; CLAJ 1943, 208-9)

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