What is recorded here

Indicated is a rectangular graveyard beside the parish church of St Kieran of Kells, where a fragment of an effigial tomb still protrudes through the outer stone wall. The dead have lain north and east of the church since medieval times, while the living passed along the road at the south. That buried figure, half-swallowed by the wall, suggests a person important enough to be remembered but lost enough to be reduced to a stone ridge.

A roughly rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 27m N-S; c. 43m E-W) associated with the parish church of St Kieran of Kells (KK027-029009-). Kells priory (KK027-029004-) lies c. 120m to the N and the medieval settlement of Kells lies to the NW and S of the church. Portion of an effigial tomb (KK027-029011-) has been inserted in the external face of the graveyard wall, at the S end of the W wall. The graveyard, which is bounded by a stone wall, extends N and E of the church, with a small portion to the S. The wall runs N and S from the W gable of the church, with external steps giving access to the door of the church. The public road runs E-W outside the S wall. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 May 2023

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