What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Louth holds a rectangular patch of soil beside a roadway, where a church still stands in the northeast corner above an older ruined site. Local memory claims a tombstone marked 1019 once lay there, though no one could read its writing and the stone vanished before inspection. The oldest surviving stones date from 1747, but the lost earlier marker suggests death and forgetfulness have worked together in this place for centuries.

Rectangular shaped graveyard (map dims. c. 48m E-W; c. 36m N-S) bounded by roadway to N and E. Present church in NE, which is probably on site of earlier church (LH018-026001-) which was ruinous in 1622. According to the Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts (674, 32) 'there is a very old tombstone, but no one can understand the writing on it, and the date on it is 1019'. This stone could not be found when inspected by ASI in 1967. A number of 18th century gravestones noted, earliest was 1747. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 4 July 2012

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