What is recorded here

Glebe is a D-shaped graveyard in County Meath where the medieval parish church of Athboy still stands beside a surviving section of the old town wall. A 16th century double effigy tomb was taken from the church tower base and moved into the vestry, while Talbot and Cusack Lutwidge graveslabs remain exposed among the masonry. The loss of other memorials recorded in the 1740s suggests that time, reuse or forgetting has redrawn the boundary between the living town and the dead.

The medieval parish church of Athboy (ME029-023003-) is within a subrectangular or D-shaped graveyard (max. dims c. 90m NE-SW; c. 70m NW-SE) defined by masonry walls, that on the straight SE side having part of the town wall (ME029-023001-) at its base (L c. 75m). The 16th century double effigy tomb (ME029-023004-) that had been in the graveyard at the base of the church tower is now displayed in the vestry at the W end of the Church of Ireland church of St James. The Talbot graveslab (ME029-023005-) and the Cusack - Lutwidge chest-tomb (ME029-023015-) are in the graveyard, but other inscribed memorials that were recorded in the 1740s (Butler 1892-4) cannot be identified. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 January, 2015

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