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Graveyard

Drumsawry Or Summerbank, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Drumsawry Or Summerbank, 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
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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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)
  • 1869 · 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

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

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

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