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Church

Rathgillen, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Rathgillen, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Rathgillen
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Killaruggle
Latest-edition OS map
Indicateed
Coordinates
53.84488, -6.74064
SMR number
ME006-061----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a level, low-lying landscape in a part of Rathgillen townland called Killaruggle on the 1908 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A church associated with St. Patrick at Killaruggle is recorded in the folk record and there was thought to be a well and a cross-inscribed stone there (IFC: Schools’ Collection vol. 712, 256), for which see this web-page accessed on 18/10/2018: https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes A rectangular overgrown structure with walls that are almost complete (T 0.6m) except the N wall is largely missing is regarded locally as a Penal church.. There are no architectural features present and there is no evidence of an enclosure or burials associated with it.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload; 30 October, 2018

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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