Church

The National Monuments Service's description

This monument was described in 1976 as 'The graveyard (WM030-083----), of small rectangular plan, is enclosed by a modern stone mortared wall. Within are a number of small simple markers and iron crosses. No inscriptions on the headstones. In the SE corner, the graveyard wall incorporates the remains of an older roughly built wall, now ivy covered. This could be the remains of the south wall of a church. No sign of dressed or carved stone' (ASI file). The monument was revisited in 1979 when it was described as 'a small rectangular graveyard enclosed by a relatively modern stone wall. A section of the SE side of the wall near the W corner is higher and thicker than the rest, this is heavily obscured by ivy but it does have a rough plinth at its base on the outside and it could be the remains of the E wall of a church (?)' (ASI file). The graveyard was last visited in 1980 when it was described as a 'very small rectangular enclosure bounded by a stone wall, seemingly of 19th century date. The northern end of the SE walll incorpprates part of an older wall. This older wall is approx. 3m-3.5m high. This wall is partly covered by ivy. This appears to be the remains of a church, although there are no architectural features and no decorated stones visible. This wall runs in a NE-SW direction and the base of the wall is set on a rough plinth is approx. 10-15cms wider than the wall. The alignment of the wall is rather odd if this is part of a church.' (ASI file)

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 30 November 2009