What is recorded here

Indicated is a square graveyard in County Dublin that drops sharply from the street at its southwest entrance, forcing visitors downward into a basin surrounded by houses and a thirty-foot northern cliff. Its crenellated wall, drawn by Beranger in the 18th century, gave the place the appearance of a small fortress rather than a burial ground. When torrential rain collapsed part of that wall in October 2011, the earth opened and coffees emerged, reminding everyone that the ground above was never solid certainties but a temporary arrangement over dead people and forgotten time.

This graveyard is square in plan and entered from the southwest corner where it drops down significantly from street level. Externally there are houses to the south and west including Howth College (DU015-030----), Abbey Road. to the east and a sheer drop c.30ft to the north. The unusual crenallated perimeter wall was depicted by Beranger in the 18th century. After torrential rain in October 2011, part of the northern perimeter wall collapsed causing extensive ground collapse and coffin exposure. A programme of removal and reinstatement was undertaken and the graveyard wall butressed externally. There are engineering monitoring points along the internal wall and on the church. The collapse along the northern limit has been repaired and plots reinstated. The graveyard contains a mixture of 18th, 19th and modern gravestones that range form simple undecorated stones to table tombs. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 26 January 2015

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