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Ardagh, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardagh
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89731, -6.74054
- SMR number
- ME003-001003-
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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
Located at the crest of the W-facing slope of a drumlin. A possible font that has a faceted stem (diam. 0.3m; H 0.25m) expanding into a damaged basin (D 0.12m) but without a drain-hole that was in the graveyard (ME003-001001-) of Ardagh church (ME003-001----) in 1984 is now missing.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 10 December, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.