What is recorded here

Indicated is a lost graveyard in County Meath where human bodies were buried within living memory. Its stones were torn out to build the Church of Ireland church of Ardbraccan in 1777, transforming a place of death into a house of worship. The earth still holds a faint rectangular shadow, waiting for someone to remember the names it swallowed.

Situated on a fairly level landscape. A subrectangular enclosure (dims c. 70m NW-SE; c. 50m NE-SW) is indicated on 1836 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, but not described. Dopping's Visitation Book (1682-5) refers to a chapel (ME024-012----) at Durhamstown, then reduced to the foundations (Ellison 1972, 10, 13) and Cogan (1862-70, 2, 258-9) knew it as Markeystown where interments had occurred within living memory. The stones were used to build the Church of Ireland church of Ardbraccan, which was built in 1777 (Lewis 1837, 1, 42). Air Corps aerial photographs from the late 1940s (V 306/1359) show a rectangular structure within this feature. The site has since been removed and appears as a slightly raised rectangular stony area (dims c. 40m N-S; c. 50m E-W). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 June, 2014

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