
What is recorded here
Mortally ill people once walked the sunken road into that graveyard because the road still existed and the living had no choice. The church sat inside the burial ground rather than beside it, placing worship among dead people instead of keeping them separate. A motte waited four hundred metres to the northwest, large enough to suggest power had gathered around the place before ordinary life arrived. The stone wall still marks the edge of a world where sickness, faith and fear moved through one narrow entrance.
Situated on a natural rise of ground in upland area. Irregular shaped graveyard enclosed by stone wall with church (OF043-023----) located in N sector of graveyard. Possible sunken medieval road (OF043-023002-) gives access to the church which is contemporary with the church and graveyard which has no modern access. Motte (OF043-020----) located approx. 400m to NW.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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