What is recorded here

One Meath graveyard holds a round tower, four high crosses and enough medieval carving to fill a whole region, all crammed inside walls two metres high. Columba's own followers built the stone church at its heart, later elevated to cathedral before settling back into ordinary parish life. The density is startling: several centuries of prayer, procession and burial compressed into a single rectangular shelf on a gentle slope, where the crosses still stand like sentinels guarding what the community kept sacred.

Located on the outer edge of a shelf towards the bottom of a gentle S-facing slope. The parish church of Gernonstown (ME019-006----) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S). The font (ME019-006002-) that was in the graveyard is now outside the Roman Catholic church at Rushwee (ME019-118----), c. 1km to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of uplaod: 15 December, 2014

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