What is recorded here

Grave Yd. holds the lost church of Rodanstown inside an oval bank and wall, forcing the dead to occupy a narrow west-facing fold while the living road skirts its eastern edge. Headstones from 1750 to 1910 mark the continuity of that choice, and even the 1970s stones joined the same crowded line. Its font left for Milltown, carrying the graveyard’s water memory elsewhere, but the chamber itself remains a place where forgetting was never permitted.

Situated on the W side of a small N-S fold in a level landscape. The site of the medieval parish church of Rodanstown (ME049-021----) is within an oval graveyard (dims c. 55m N-S; c. 45m E-W) defined by an earthen bank SE-W-NW and by a masonry wall NW-E-SE where it is skirted by a public road. The headstones date largely from c. 1750 to c. 1910 with some newer headstones from the 1970s. The font from this graveyard is now at Milltown (ME017-036----) near Kells. Archaeological testing (20E0681) by D. Shine c. 150m to the NW at the closest point produced no related material (excavations.ie 2020:354). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 July, 2015

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