Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Beaulieu, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Beaulieu
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72995, -6.29304
- SMR number
- LH025-004----
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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
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Present church dates to 1807, but church founded by Plunkett at Beaulieu is late thirteenth century, probably in field N of present church known as 'Church Field'. Two grave-slabs in present church, one a representation of a cadaver of mid-fifteenth century date, the other a Norman type with floriated cross (see LH025-005001- and LH025-005002-). (CLAJ 1944, 277; CLAJ 1980, 276)
Nearby in the register
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Decoy pondunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.