Church, Tober Demesne, Co. Wicklow
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In a graveyard in Tober Demesne, County Wicklow, the only trace of a former church is a shallow depression in the ground.
Roughly ten metres by four and a half metres, this slightly sunken rectangular patch sits in the north-east corner of the enclosure, the soil having settled over centuries into the ghost outline of walls that no longer exist above ground. It is the kind of site that rewards a careful eye rather than a casual glance.
The graveyard itself is a rectangular enclosure measuring around forty metres by thirty, set on a gently south-east-facing slope. Its boundary is defined by a nineteenth-century stone wall, which gives the site a relatively tidy, maintained appearance, though the wall is a later addition to what is clearly a much older place. A small number of eighteenth-century headstones survive within the enclosure, modest markers that suggest the site remained in use as a burial ground long after whatever church once stood here had fallen out of use or fallen apart entirely. The sunken footprint in the north-east corner is all that remains to indicate where the building stood.
