Grave Yard

One Meath graveyard holds a round tower, four high crosses and enough medieval carving to fill a whole region, crammed into a rectangular plot no larger than ninety-five metres. That density belongs to the Columban community founded by followers of Colm Cille, whose stone daimhliag later became a cathedral before returning to parish use. The crosses still rise beside walls and buried stone, marking a place where prayer, memory and craft were layered so thickly that even silence sounds occupied.