Graveyard in Macreddin West, County Wicklow (WI034-009003-)

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What is recorded here

Situated on a marked SW-facing slope. A modern graveyard contained within a quadrangular enclosure (WI034-009001-) (max. dims. 75m NE-SW; 60m NW-SE) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; H 1.3m) and slight indications of an external fosse (Wth 1.5m); the NW and NE perimeters have been replaced by modern walls with an entrance at the NE. There is a circular granite font fixed to the graveyard wall and there are a number of eighteenth-century gravestones.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI034-009003

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