What is recorded here

Le Fanu Park in Ballyfermot, County Dublin, now covers a medieval graveyard and church ruins once described as perfect in 1838. By 1978 only foundations and scattered gravestones remained, but 1998 excavations recovered human bones and the old graveyard wall beneath the soil. The park transforms a buried parish into open ground, preserving memory through absence rather than monument.

The remains of the graveyard have been completely cleared and landscaped to create Le Fanu Park. This was attached to the medieval parish church of Ballyfermot, described by D'Alton (1838, 639) as being in perfect condition. In 1978 when the site was inspected (OPW) there were still foundations of the church and some gravestones of 19th century date. Archaeological test excavation was carried during October 1998 at the corner of Le Fanu Road and Raheen Road, Ballyfermot, Co. Dublin. Test excavations carried out in1998 uncovered the graveyard wall and articulated and disarticulated human remains within the boundary of the graveyard (O'Donovan 2000, 35)

Medieval churchyard and associated burial site, 14th–16th century. Significance lies in its historical connection to the parish church of Ballyfermot and as a precursor to the modern Le Fanu Park.

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