Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Drumsawry Or Summerbank, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumsawry Or Summerbank
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75326, -7.13665
- SMR number
- ME009-042003-
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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 the N-facing slope of a SE-NW spur at the N foothills of the E-W Slieve na Calliagh ridge. The church (ME009-042002-) was in a graveyard, which was never enclosed or marked on a map and is no longer evident, but two headstones from it, dated 1740 and 1753, were built into a nearby field wall. Archaeological testing (05E1393) by C. Duffy on a plot (dims c. 100m E-W c. 30m N-S) c. 200m to the SSW produced no related material (excavations.ie 2005:1174; 2006:1522). (O'Connell 1965, 174-5)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 May, 2014
Amended: 30 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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.