What is recorded here

Indicated is a burial vault beneath St. Catherine's church in County Meath, reached through a narrow passage cut into the chamber floor. The chamber itself is a later addition to the church, with a barrel-vaulted ceiling and a light still set into its east wall. Below, the vault continues the same vaulted form, a smaller dark room where the dead were kept away from the river slope and the life of the village above.

Situated at the edge of a S-facing slope down to a W-E section of the SW-NE River Boyne, with the stream c. 100m to the S. A round-headed doorway (Wth 0.86m) on the S wall of St. Catherine's church (ME025-018001-) leads to a chamber (ext. dims 6.05m N-S; 4.72m E-W) with a N-S barrel-vault, which is a later addition to the church. The chamber has a light in the E wall and a blocked light on the S wall. A passage (L 1.9m; Wth 0.75m) in the floor leads underground from the N to a burial vault (int. dims 2.95m E-W; 2.8m N-S), which has a N-S barrel-vault. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 June, 2014

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