Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Castletown (Slievemargy By.), County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown (Slievemargy By.)
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 52.91724, -7.03865
- SMR number
- LA026-011003-
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1942 · Sheet 349 - Third Edition (Layered) - Ordnance Survey of Ireland, One inch to the mile… (National Library of Scotland)
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to the History of the Queens County 'Castletown Protestant church is on the site of a more ancient one, and a grave-yard, as also Castletown House and Maidenhead House. A remarkable mound is at a few paces distance from the church. Newcastle, in ruins, and Towerlton House are also here' (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 251).
Mr. Kent of Castletown House, informed us of a tradition that there was a burial ground in the field south of the church and that bones had been found there (Urban Survey 1986 , p. 20).
Rectangular graveyard (int. dims. 28m N-S; 57m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall with a church of Ireland church (LA026-011002-) in the centre of the graveyard.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.