What is recorded here
Castlebellingham graveyard holds a central church believed to occupy the footprint of an earlier worship site, while grave slabs from the early to mid eighteenth century mark the lives buried around it. The sub-rectangular shape suggests a small community that kept returning to the same ground across generations. People may have walked past those stones for weddings, funerals and ordinary errands, carrying memory into the heart of County Louth.
Sub-rectangular shaped graveyard with present church in centre which is believed to be built on site of earlier church (LH015-008001-). Contains a number of grave slabs dating from the early to mid eighteenth century (CLAJ 1922, 104).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 31 May 2012
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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