What is recorded here

Grave Yard stands on a rise beside the River Blackwater in County Meath, its stone walls enclosing Martry church and the dead since at least the early 1700s. The narrow rectangle stretches east and west, with a later northern extension, while the stream flows a kilometre distant. People have carried their grief across that open valley for generations, laying bones beneath soil that has never stopped receiving them.

Situated on a rise in a fairly level landscape in the valley of the NW-SE River Blackwater, with the stream c. 1km to the E. The parish church of Martry (ME017-037----) is in a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 50-65m E-W; c. 40m N-S) defined by masonry walls that has been extended (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 15m N-S) on the N side. According to Dopping's Visitation (1682-5) the graveyard was fenced at that time (Ellison 1972, 11). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 5 June, 2014

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.