Graveyard in Monasterboice

A sub-square shaped graveyard (max. map dims 71m N-S; 61m E-W) with the remains of two churches (LH021-062003-; LH021-062004-) in the north and centre. The graveyard contains a medieval sundial and two grave-slabs, one (sometimes referred to as the Ruarcan slab) with a double-lined incised inscription and cross, the other with part of a poorly incised cross. The grave-slabs are situated close to the N and S walls of the N church. A third slab was recovered from the graveyard in 1989 and has not previously been recorded. It is an almost rectangular piece of greywacke (max. L 0.6m; Wth 0.18m, T 0.09m) and has a similar simple deeply incised cross on each face. Among the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century headstones in the graveyard there are some very fine examples of folk art as well as two headstones with inscriptions partly in Irish. Isaac Butler recorded a holy well (LH021-062022-) dedicated to a Saint Kiarnan outside the graveyard at SW in 1744, which explains why this angle is excluded from the graveyard itself (Deane 1922, 106). Date of amended upload: 11 May 2016

A sub-square shaped graveyard (max. map dims 71m N-S; 61m E-W) with the remains of two churches (LH021-062003-; LH021-062004-) in the north and centre. The graveyard contains a medieval sundial and two grave-slabs, one (sometimes referred to as the Ruarcan slab) with a double-lined incised inscription and cross, the other with part of a poorly incised cross. The grave-slabs are situated close to the N and S walls…