Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Foxhall Glebe, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Foxhall Glebe
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- G. Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.62892, -7.61621
- SMR number
- LF024-003003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Associated with a late-medieval church (LF024-003001-). This irregularly shaped graveyard (50m N-S; 45m E-W) is enclosed by concrete posts with an intervening iron mesh. Access is via a wrought-iron gate and adjacent concrete stile. Memorials date from the 18th to the 21st centuries. Within the church is a wall monument (LF024-003002-) commemorating Sir Nathaniel Fox who died in 1634. (ITA Survey 1944; Casey and Rowan 1993, 352-3, Pl. 58; Lennon 2005)
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 4 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Wall monument - effigialunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.