Churchyard Stones

Nearest town:
Dunshaughlin (9km ESE)
OS reference:
N921597
OS sheet:
43
Latitude:
53° 34' 44.68 N
Longitude:
6° 36' 33.59 W
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Images

Image of Churchyard Stones (Standing Stones) by ryaner

Usually the first of the many monuments the Tara visitor encounters, they’re not a bad start.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Mar 20, 2020
Image of Churchyard Stones (Standing Stones) by Meic

7th January 2012. The larger of the two !

Image credit: Michael Mitchell
Meic
Meic Feb 4, 2012
Image of Churchyard Stones (Standing Stones) by Cursuswalker

Detail of the figure on the taller Churchyard Stone.
August 2003.

Image credit: Cursuswalker
Cursuswalker
Cursuswalker Oct 11, 2003

Articles

Churchyard Stones

C
CARL Jun 8, 2011

Visited 23.5.11
The first site on my list for the Hill of Tara.
A sunny day but incredibly windy.
I parked in the car park and walked up the path through the well kemp church yard.
The stones are easy to spot just to the right of the church.
One stone is about 1.8 metres tall, the other about 0.5 metres.
The wind was so strong it was impossible to write my notes and in the end I sought shelter behind the small remaining ruined wall of the medieval church.
If it is this windy here, I dread to think how windy it will be when I go the the next site on top of Tara Hill.

Churchyard Stones

Vicster
Vicster Aug 17, 2006

After visiting Loughcrew, we headed for Tara. Unfortunately, before you hit the site of these 2 stones, you have to cross the path of St Patrick, which somewhat offended our lapsed-Catholic sensibilities!!

However, we struggled gamely by and entered the churchyard, the 2 stones immediately apparent on the right hand side. No-one else seemed remotely interested in them and we tried to photograph the larger stone with its carvings but the light just wasn’t right (the pictures I did take are pretty much duplicates of what has already been posted here, so I won’t bother you with them)

I like seeing stones standing in churchyards, there’s something quite heroic about it! Many people we spoke to whilst in Ireland commented upon how superstition had actually saved many of the sites from being destroyed, which is the only good reason I can think of for holding such beliefs!

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