Why this matters
A local church or high cross; wider significance not recorded.
Overview
Ruin — Danestown is recorded as Church in Meath. Located on a slight rise of a S-facing slope near the W head of a small W-E valley. A church at Daveney is listed in the ecclesiastical taxation (1302-06) of Pope Nicholas IV (Cal.
Foundation and growth
The saved account records: According to Dopping (1682-5) the church and chancel had been ruined since 1641 and it was not enclosed (Elliot 1972, 59).
People and events
The saved account records: Located on a slight rise of a S-facing slope near the W head of a small W-E valley.
Damage, loss and survival
The saved account records: Ussher (1622) describes the church of Danistowne as repaired and the chancel as ruined (Erlington 1847-74, 1, lxxv).
Why it mattered
Ruin — Danestown matters because the source ties church to this exact landscape and preserves evidence that a bare map name loses. The saved account adds: A church at Daveney is listed in the ecclesiastical taxation (1302-06) of Pope Nicholas IV (Cal.
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