What is recorded here

Westpalstown graveyard holds a rectangular patch of County Dublin where medieval church fragments now mark the dead. The ruined walls stand in the north-west corner while broken stone pieces scatter across the graves, turning sacred architecture into permanent guides for the departed. People have buried their own there since the church fell, trusting that repurposed holy stone still knows the names it once helped build.

Westpalstown graveyard consists of a roughly rectangular-shaped area (dims. L 70m x Wth 60m) enclosed by a hedgerow, with ruins of the medieval church (DU007-008001-) of Westpalstown in NW corner. Situated on flat pasture with good views of the surrounding countryside. There are a considerable number of architectural fragments from the church, re-used as grave markers in the graveyard. S of the church the graves are defined by a ditched feature which runs N-S (L c. 45m), returns and then runs into a field boundary. This is probably an earlier graveyard boundary (Mc Dix 1892, 182). The graveyard was previously surveyed in 1992 (Egan). Still in use. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 4 April 2023

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