What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Meath holds the lost parish church of Rathbeggan inside a rectangular stone wall, preserving a baptismal font and a few scattered headstones. Dopping recorded the enclosure during his 1682 to 1685 visitation, proving the boundary existed before most surviving markers appeared. The flat landscape and quiet stones suggest a continuous place of burial rather than an abandoned ruin, while the missing church building leaves the true shape of worship to imagination.

Situated on a level landscape. The site of the parish church of Rathbeggan (ME044-030----) is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 55-65m N-S; c. 25-35m E-W) defined by masonry walls, which has a few 19th century headstones, one of which was thought to be 'old' (IFC Schools MSS, vol. 687, p.252). According to Dopping's visitation (1682-5) the graveyard was enclosed at that time (Ellison 1971, 38). The font (ME044-030002-) is in the graveyard. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 April, 2015

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