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Located towards the bottom of a gentle NW-facing slope. The parish church of Painestown (ME026-002----) is within a graveyard, which was described as fenced in Dopping's Visitation (1682-5) (Ellison 1971, 36), but the original extent of which is not certain. There is a concentrated area of burials (dims c. 45m E-W; c. 20m N-S at E to c. 30m N-S at W) around the church within a subrectangular area (dims c. 75-110m NE-SW; c. 60m NW-SE) defined by earthen banks with trees on each side except the NE where railings separate it from a N-S public road. Part of a sandstone font (ME026-002003-) and cut stones from a spire (ME026-002004-) are within the graveyard, but the stone effigy of a woman (ME026-002001-) was moved to St. Patrick’s Church of Ireland church in Slane (ME019-023001-) where it is displayed on the S wall of the vestry.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 July, 2014
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