Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Dunleer, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunleer
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- G. yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.83194, -6.39355
- SMR number
- LH018-064003-
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-rectangular shaped graveyard (map dims. c. 76m x c. 40m) with present church in W half. Earliest marked gravestone (LH018-064012-) dates to 1679 but the graveyard was probably in use for sometime before this date (Faulkner and Ross 1992, 446).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 11 July 2012
References
Faulkner P. and Ross N. 1992 Gravestone inscriptions in Dunleer. In Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society (Vol. 22) 446-452.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.