Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Faughart Upper, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faughart Upper
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 54.05161, -6.38417
- SMR number
- LH004-097003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Indicated on Taylor and Skinner's map (1777). Sub-rectangular shaped (map dims. c. 80m NW-SE x c. 45m NE-SW). In the NW is a small decorated stone (L 0.5m, Wth 0.18m, T 0.11m) used as a graveslab. All but one side has been dressed, so that originally the stone must have been recumbent. A cherub is carved on side in a circular depression. A limestone burial slab with the carved figure of a bishop was removed from the graveyard to the National Museum.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 17 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.