What is recorded here

Grave Yard holds the ruined church of Cruicetown inside a circular wall on a west-facing hill in County Meath. The church dates from the 12th century and was dedicated to St. James, but Dopping’s Visitation found it ruined in the 1680s. The graveyard measures about forty metres across, with a faint internal bank still visible at its north-east edge. It is the kind of place where old faith and forgotten lives remain buried beneath grass and stone.

Situated towards the top of the W-facing slope of a hill. The 12th century parish church of Cruicetown is within a subcircular graveyard (dims c. 40m NE-SW; c. 40m NW-SE) defined by a masonry wall, with traces of an internal bank N-E. According to Dopping’s Visitation (1682-5) the church was dedicated to St. James, it had been in ruins since 1641 and it was not enclosed (Ellison 1972, 8). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 May, 2014 Amended: 10 July, 2014

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