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Grave Yard

Graveyard

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Grave Yard in County Meath holds a round tower, four high crosses, and dense medieval carving within a single rectangular enclosure, concentrating what might otherwise scatter across an entire region. The place belonged to followers of Colm Cille, whose stone church became a cathedral before returning to parish use, while masonry walls still mark the boundary between sacred memory and the living world. To walk among those crosses is to meet a community that shaped northern Britain and left its prayers carved into stone.
Located on a level landscape. Dopping in his Visitation books (1682-5) does not comment on the graveyard at Rathmore (Ellison 1972, 12). The fortified parish church of Rathmore (ME024-017001-) is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 50m N-S) defined by masonry walls. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 June, 2014

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