Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Priorstate, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Priorstate
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave yd
- Coordinates
- 53.95321, -6.54417
- SMR number
- LH011-115006-
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
Sub-square shaped graveyard, much overgrown with ivy, with remains of late medieval church (LH011-115005-) in N. Earliest date noted on gravestones is 1736. A number of stone vaults in the eastern part one of which reportedly had an Irish inscription on it. (Tempest 1952, 127)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 12 April 2012
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Holed stoneunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.