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Graveyard

Kilbride, County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Kilbride, County Longford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilbride
County
Longford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Kilbride Grave Yard Disused
Coordinates
53.76712, -7.46021
SMR number
LF011-032001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a low knoll in undulating pasture. A raised oval area (49m N-S; 45m E-W) enclosed from NE-E-SE by a wide, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 6m; H 0.4-0.5m) and from SW-N-NNE by a scarp (H 1-1.8m). Elsewhere it is defined by a hedgerow. The external base of both the bank and scarp is revetted in places with large upright slabs. There is no trace of a fosse and the original entrance is not recognisable. The interior slopes appreciably from W-E. Despite being named 'Old Graveyard' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, no grave-markers of any kind are visible. A possible church (LF011-032002-) is associated. The size and morphology of the graveyard, and the townland name, suggest that this may be an early ecclesiastical foundation. (Lennon 2005)

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 5 June 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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