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Graveyard in Dunboyne

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Situated on a level landscape with a small W-E stream, which feeds into the NW-SE Tolka river c. 1.5km to the E, c. 80m to the S. The medieval parish church of Dunboyne (ME050-021001-) is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 80m N-S; c. 70m E-W) defined by earthen banks (Wth c. 5m; H 0.5-01m) with a N-S stream outside the perimeter at N and W. The headstones date from c. 1780 to the present.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME050-021004

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