What is recorded here

Grave Yard holds the grass-covered remains of Brownstown parish church inside a rounded rectangular wall on a hill slope in County Meath. A few stones mark burials from 1786 to 1934, while local memory preserves a lost tomb belonging to Catherine Plunkett. The place is small, quiet and partially forgotten, yet it still keeps the shape of a church that no longer stands.

Located towards the top of the NE-facing slope of a hill. The grass-covered foundations of the parish church of Brownstown (ME026-014----) are within a neglected subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 40m N-S; c. 40m E-W) with rounded corners defined by masonry walls that has a small number of headstones dating from 1786 to 1934. Cogan (1862-70, 1, 347-8) records that there was a tomb here of Catherine Plunkett, a daughter of Mathew Plunkett, baron of Louth, which would date c. 1700, but this tomb was not identified. Archaeological testing (16E0401) by D. Finn c. 80m to the NNE of the graveyard at the closest point produced no related material (excavations.ie 2016:526). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 22 December, 2014 Amended: 9 April 2021

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