What is recorded here

Grave Yard holds the old monastery of St. Caomhán Breac inside a rectangular enclosure on a gentle rise in County Meath. Earthen banks and trees once marked its edges, but a newer wall surrounds the place now. Six cross-slabs, a chest tomb and a cup-marked stone still stand among the buried dead, waiting for whoever remembers their names.

Situated on a rise in a gently undulating landscape. The early monastery of St. Caomhán Breac, which became the parish church of Diamor (ME015-056001-) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 45-55m E-W; c. 43-46m N-S) that was defined by earthen banks with trees. The perimeter at E forms the townland boundary with Clonabreany, but archaeological testing (90E0045) demonstrated that it was of relatively recent construction (excavations.ie 1990:091) (Meenan 1991). The graveyard is now surrounded by a masonry wall and contains a cup-marked stone, six cross-slabs and a medieval chest tomb. All the inscriptions have been recorded (Moore and Kenny 1976). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 June, 2014

Christian cemetery associated with a medieval monastery; dates primarily to the medieval period. Its significance lies in its connection to St. Caomhán Breac and the development of the parish church of Diamor.

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