What is recorded here

Grave Yard stands on a south-facing slope at the east edge of Ballymore Eustace, holding two high crosses, several inscribed slabs and the broken remains of a medieval church beside a later building. Beech and yew trees shade leaning tombstones and table graves stretching from the 18th century to recent times. The place suggests an old centre of worship and memory, where burial, prayer and local identity continued through changing beliefs.

On a S-facing slope on the E edge of Ballymore Eustace, a historic town (KD029-011001-). A roughly square area (max. c. 82m E-W; c. 80m N-S) is enclosed by a well-built stone wall with a gate and stile in the NW corner and a gate in the SE corner. Mature beech and yew trees grow throughout. It’s likely to have been a significant pre-Norman ecclesiastical site because the graveyard also contains two high crosses (KD029-011006- and KD029-011007-), two cross-inscribed slabs (KD029-011008-, KD029-011009-) and seven graveslabs (KD029-011014- to KD029-011020-). There is also a medieval font (KD029-011013-), a holed stone (KD029-011012-) and the fragmentary remains of a medieval church (KD029-011002-) to the rear of an upstanding 19th-century church, which itself contains a second medieval font (KD029-011013-) and a 16th-century knightly effigy (KD029-011011-). Burials from the 18th-century to recent times are marked by chest tombs, table tombs and headstones, many of which are leaning and some of which are broken. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 30 August 2013

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