Today being sunny and pleasant, I went for a walk in the churchyard of St Peter's, Drogheda
While the church itself was unfortunately closed, the graveyard contains some interesting old tombstones, especially these 'cadaver stones'.
They were taken from the tomb of Sir Edmond Goldyng and his wife Elizabeth Fleming and are believed to date back to the first quarter of the sixteenth century.
The stone is 7ft in height, with a crude sculpture of a skeleton with too many ribs and a huge hole representing a womb on the female sculpture.
There are fewer than ten of these stones left in Ireland and, amazingly, three of them are in the Drogheda area.