What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Meath holds the vanished parish church of Staffordstown inside a rectangular grass enclosure bounded by earthen banks and shallow fosses. A small stone-filled area at the north-west angle may mark a mausoleum, while the church font left for Walterstown and a Cussack plaque disappeared altogether. The graveyard is called a graveyard on old maps, yet no grave remains visible, leaving only banks, grass and memory to define where the dead lay.

The site of the parish church of Staffordstown (ME032-001----) is on a shelf at the bottom of a gentle S-facing slope and probably within a rectangular grass-covered graveyard (dims c. 22m N-S; c. 20m E-W), although there is no physical evidence of it. The enclosure is defined by earthen banks (Wth 2-3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5-0.8m) and outer fosses (Wth of top c. 2-3m; ext. D 0.2-0.4m) on three sides, and a slight scarp at S. A small rectangular area defined by stone-facings and filled with stones at the NW angle of the enclosure may be a mausoleum (ME032-001004-). Apart from this there is no other evidence of burial in the enclosure, although it is described as a graveyard on the 1836 and 1909 eds of the OS 6-inch map. The font (ME032-001002-) from here was moved c. 1975 to the Roman Catholic church in Walterstown (ME032-077----), c. 2.5km to the SE, and the armorial plaque (ME032-001003-) from the Cussack monument in Trevet graveyard (ME038-017002-) that was here (Hickey 1971, 77-8) is now missing. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 January, 2015

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