Graveyard in Brockagh, County Wicklow

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What is recorded here

Trinity Church (WI023-014001-) stands in a small rectangular enclosure/churchyard (dims L 27.5m E-W; Wth 16m), defined by a well-built drystone wall (with some mortar in the wall along the road to the N) which averages 1m in height and 0.8m thick. Lies on a narrow terrace in a S-facing slope overlooking low, wet, rushy, flooded pasture immediately to the S. No burial markers can be seen or evidence of it having been used as a graveyard (though there is a cross slab (WI023-014001-) reused as a step giving acccess to the site from the road to the N).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI023-014005

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