Churchyard

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in a small dip at the bottom of a slight SW-facing slope, and there is a small NW-SE stream immediately outside the churchyard to the S that feeds into the Broadmeadow River c. 2.3km to the ESE. The chapel-of-ease at Cookstown (ME045-001----) is within an enclosure which is depicted as a subrectangular area (dims c. 38m E-W at N to c. 52m E-W at S; c. 38-46m N-S) with a NE-SW road on the W side on the 1836 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a D-shaped area (dims c. 48m N-S; c. 45m E-W) with the straight side at W on the 1909 ed. of the map. Archaeological testing (01E0091) identified a defining ditch (Wth 1.2m; D 1m plus) at two points on the perimeter at N, although no burials were recorded in the N part of the enclosure (Miles 2003). Further limited testing (02E1689) identified the bank and external ditch at two points on the W side during the widening of a minor N-S road from Ashbourne to Ratoath, but again no burials were identifiied (O’Connor 2004).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 7 April, 2015

References

Miles, F. 2003 Cookstown: medieval parish church. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 293-4, No. 995. Bray, Wordwell

O'Connor, D. J. 2004 Cookstown: churchyard. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 408-09, No. 1444. Bray, Wordwell