What is recorded here

Grave Yd. holds the parish church of Painestown inside earthen banks and trees on a gentle NW-facing slope in County Meath. A concentrated burial area stretches around the church, while railings mark the NE edge beside a public road. A sandstone font and spire stones remain scattered within the ground, but a woman’s effigy was moved to St. Patrick’s Church of Ireland church in Slane. The place still keeps its shape, though much of its earlier boundary has faded from sight.

Located towards the bottom of a gentle NW-facing slope. The parish church of Painestown (ME026-002----) is within a graveyard, which was described as fenced in Dopping's Visitation (1682-5) (Ellison 1971, 36), but the original extent of which is not certain. There is a concentrated area of burials (dims c. 45m E-W; c. 20m N-S at E to c. 30m N-S at W) around the church within a subrectangular area (dims c. 75-110m NE-SW; c. 60m NW-SE) defined by earthen banks with trees on each side except the NE where railings separate it from a N-S public road. Part of a sandstone font (ME026-002003-) and cut stones from a spire (ME026-002004-) are within the graveyard, but the stone effigy of a woman (ME026-002001-) was moved to St. Patrick’s Church of Ireland church in Slane (ME019-023001-) where it is displayed on the S wall of the vestry. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 July, 2014

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