What is recorded here

Indicated is a walled graveyard on a sunny knoll above a small stream in County Meath, holding the lost church of Siddan beneath the present St. David’s Church built in 1881. A cross-slab and a borrowed font from Drumcondrath still mark the place, while the earliest church remains hidden under later stone and memory. The dead may have chosen this warm slope because it faced the light, leaving behind a quiet room where forgotten prayers still belong.

Situated on a knoll on a S-facing slope in the valley of a small SE-NW stream, which is c. 30m to the S and which joins the River Dee c. 1.5km to the NW. The site of the parish church of Siddan (ME006-056001-) is within a rectangular graveyard (max. dims c. 87m N-S; c. 50m E-W) defined by masonry walls where the present St. David’s Church of Ireland church that was built in 1881 stands, but the precise location of the earliest church structure is not known. In the graveyard is a cross-slab (ME006-056002-) and the font from Drumcondrath (ME006-012003-) is now outside the present church (ME006-056004-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 May, 2014 Amended: 7 August, 2014

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