Old Drogheda Society
The
Cruicetown Cemetery Conservation Committee Annual Memorial Mass will be held in
St John the Baptist Church, Nobber, County Meath on Friday 6th November 2015 at
8pm.
The
Annual General Meeting of Cruicetown Cemetery Conservation Committee will also
be held on Friday 6th November in Nobber Community Hall, immediately after the
Annual Memorial Mass.
Cruicetown Cemetery Conservation Committee and St John's
Old Cemetery Restoration Committee formed - following a public meeting held in
Nobber Community Hall in April 2004 - with Nobber Parish Priest Fr Seamus
Houlihan, to organise the ongoing maintenance, preservation and historical
documentation of the two old cemeteries in the parish.
As part of this historical documentation, the Discovery
Programme has carried out studies of both cemeteries.
Cruicetown
Cemetery Conservation Committee has initiated a continuous programme of
restoration and conservation of the total site in consultation with the
relevant authorities; OPW and a private archaeologist, David Sweetman, and
County Heritage Officer, Dr. Loreto Guinan.
The continuous conservation & maintenance of the
total site has included the reinstatement of external walling (with security
fence over) and internal peripheral gravel path, repair / re-erection of Abbe James
Lynch memorial, carved Celtic cross.
Other work carried out includes; a survey by the National
Discovery Programme Team; its publication on Internet & copies to County
Library, a new entrance to facilitate disabled and funeral access and the
erection of pedestrian entrance, stone piers and walling at entrance off
public road.
Further work has included the erection of Interpretative
Panel listing all known burials, monuments and layout.
Cruicetown church and cemetery is situated in the townland
of Cruicetown, west of Nobber Village, off county road 136.
The parish of Cruicetown includes the townlands of Altmush,
Cruicetown, Moydorragh and Newtown; it is now part of Nobber Parish.
Amalgamation around 1700.
Maurice Cruise, an Anglo-Norman, got possession of
substantial land holdings in Morgallion following the Norman invasion.
The church, built in the late 12th or early 13th centuries:
surrounded by a dry-stone built wall, probably erected after the 1815
Act. The church contains a Cruise vault in the church; in the
cemetery a fine carved stone High Cross (1688) and the remains of a
possible bell tower.
Adjacent to the site is a Motte and Bailey and traces
of a substantial settlement.
It is a site of archaeological and historical importance, on
an elevated site. It is a tourist attraction with numerous
visitors and many people tracing family genealogy, from Ireland & abroad.
To contact the group phone Oliver Ward Secretary 046 90 5 22
36 or 086 33 22 821, email cruicetown@hotmail.com
or see www.facebook.com/cruicetowncemeteryconservationcommittee
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