Graveyard, Stranakelly, Co. Wicklow

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Graveyard, Stranakelly, Co. Wicklow

At the eastern end of a ruined church in Stranakelly, a granite font lies on the ground in three pieces.

It is roughly square with rounded edges, and whatever ceremony it once presided over, baptism most likely, it now sits broken and largely unremarked in a graveyard that most people pass without knowing it exists.

The graveyard occupies a rectangular enclosure measuring roughly 70 metres east to west and 40 metres north to south, set towards the north-western end of a low ridge with gentle slopes falling away to the west, north, and east. The site is reached by a laneway entering from the south-east, where a modern wall now defines the boundary. The ruined church inside predates that wall considerably, and the broken font within it is a quiet reminder that this was once an active place of religious life, not simply a field for the dead. Granite, the local material of choice across much of Wicklow, weathers slowly, which is part of why the font survives at all, even in fragments.

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