What is recorded here

Grave Yard at Greenoge in County Meath stands on a ridge crest, holding headstones from the 1700s through the 2000s inside masonry walls. A cross base still sits on the northwest gate pier, and a holy well waits ninety metres northeast by the roadside. The dead have watched the living pass for centuries, patient as stone, while the ridge wind moves through the grass like breath.

Situated on the crest of an E-W ridge. The parish church of Greenoge (ME045-018----) is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 55m N-S; c. 30m E-W at N to c. 45m E-W at S) defined by masonry walls, with headstones dating largely to the 19th and 20th centuries, although there is a headstone with the date 1753 in the nave of the church where the watch-house (ME045-018001-) occupies the NE corner of the nave and blocks half the chancel arch. The rectangular base of a cross (ME045--018003-) (dims 0.85-0.88m x 0.7m; H 0.24-0.27m) with a socket (dims 0.28m x 0.22m; D 0.2m) is on top of a gate-pier at the original entrance of the graveyard at the NW angle (Feeley 2001, 37). A holy well (ME045-062----) is at the roadside c. 90m to the NE. Archaeological monitoring (E004021) by R. Meenan of the repair of a section of the graveyard wall at E in 2009 produced no archaeological material (excavations.ie 2009:647). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 April, 2015 Amended: 10 February 2021

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