What is recorded here

Templemurry Church in Rathdrum sits inside a sub-rectangular graveyard where broad earthen banks still mark the edge of a much older Christian life. The south bank rises nearly a metre above the graves, while the east edge has eroded into a shallow scar, suggesting centuries of rain, foot traffic and forgotten burial. People may have walked this narrow green chamber for generations, carrying the dead past the same church walls before the land itself began to swallow the boundary.

Templemurry Church (TS070-088----) is enclosed by a sub-rectangular graveyard (dims. 24.4m N–S along the E side; 35.3m N–S along the W side; 39.5m E–W), defined to the S by a broad bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.94m; Wth at top 1.4m; overall Wth 4.5m) and to the E, at the S end, by an irregular much eroded scarp/bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.5m; Wth at top 1.4m; overall Wth 2.5m). There is no visible scarp or bank along the N half of the E side. The N side is defined by a broad low bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.4m; Wth at top 1.5m; overall Wth 4.3m) which appears to continue in the field across the road to the W where there is a low rise for a short distance (L 5.3m). The W edge of the graveyard is poorly preserved but is visible as a low scarp (H 0.45m). The NW angle is not visible above ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 September 2011

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