Ecclesiastical enclosure in Baltigeer,cappaboggan — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Templeavy and its graveyard occupy a broad oval in County Meath, marked by a broken ditch rather than a proud wall. The ditch still shows on the west and north, shallow enough to step across but wide enough to remember that the ground was set apart. A field bank cuts the oval unevenly, giving most of the place to Baltigeer and leaving a narrower strip beside Cappaboggan. That slight division may have marked a changed boundary, a shared prayer or a forgotten claim, yet the church remains the centre of the local landscape.

Situated on a fairly level landscape, with a small SSE-NNW stream that flows into the Kinnegad River flowing through it. The church of Templeavy (ME046-003----) and its graveyard (ME046-003001-) are within an oval ecclesiastical enclosure (dims c. 145m N-S; c. 110m E-W) defined by a fosse that is best preserved S-W-N (at W: Wth of top 7-8m; int. D 1.4m; ext. D 0.8m) but is still traceable throughout its extent. A S-N field bank and hedge with an accompanying drain, which forms the townland boundary with Cappaboggan to the E, divides the enclosure unequally with the greater part in Baltigeer, and this boundary bifurcates to ENE and SW towards the S edge of the enclosure. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 April, 2015

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