Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Church Island, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Church Island
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.80270, -7.32760
- SMR number
- ME008-001001-
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
Located on Church Island in Lough Sheelin, which is on the borders of counties Meath, Westmeath and Cavan, with county Longford c. 6km further W. The small church (ME008-001----) is on a N-facing slope on the overgrown island. According to O'Connell (1965, 178) 'there is a popular tradition there was a cemetery on the island, and it is marked as such on the Ordnance Survey maps. Owing to the present overgrown condition of the site it is impossible to ascertain its exact location, but it would appear to have extended northwest of the church where the ground is more level.’
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 25 July, 2014
References
O'Connell, P. 1965 The parish and district of Kilbride. Part 4 - Oldcastle. Ríocht na Midhe, Vol. 3, 3, 171-180.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ring1 mi
- Castle - motte1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.