What is recorded here

On a quiet rise in County Meath, a lost graveyard once held the dead until carts dragged their bones away around 1830. The earth still remembers the shape of that loss, even though no church or grave marker remains to name it.

Situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. It is marked as a subrectangular area (dims c. 45m N-S; c. 15m E-W at N; c. 40m E-W at S) on the 1836 and 1909 eds of the OS 6-inch map and it is described on both as the site of a graveyard. Cogan (1862-70, 1, 189-90) records that the church (ME050-009----) had been destroyed and its graveyard desecrated c. 1830 when cartloads of bones were removed. A ditch had been dug through it and bones were protruding from its sides. It is recorded locally that bones were uncovered there in the mid-20th century (SMR file, 1968). There is no evidence of the church or burial. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 April, 2015

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