TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Graveyard

Robertstown (Kells Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Robertstown, 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
Robertstown (Kells Lower By.)
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Coordinates
53.80369, -6.80736
SMR number
ME011-005004-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

The manorial church at Robertstown (ME011-005----) is situated on a fairly level landscape within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 37m NE-SW: c. 35m NW-SE) defined by earthen banks (Wth c. 5m; H c. 1m) and hedges, which were not present in 1682-5 according to Dopping (Ellison 1973, 8). The path (Wth c. 3m) connecting it with a public road c. 30m to the W is bordered by similar banks. The cross (ME011-005001-) is on the N side of the path as it enters the graveyard. Two graveslabs are in the church, that at the NE angle (ME011-005002-) is dated 1618, while that at the SE angle (ME011-005005-) dates from 1688 (King 1987, 300-01, 305). The late 16th or early 17th century Barnwall castle (ME011-006----) is c. 250m to the SSW and the motte (ME011-004----) is c. 260m to the SW.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 20 May, 2014
Amended: 10 July, 2014

References

King, H.A. 1987 Seventeenth-century effigial sculpture in the north Meath area. In E. Rynne (ed.), Figures from the past: studies on figurative art in Christian Ireland in honour of Helen M. Roe, 283-307. Dun Laoghaire. Glendale Press.

Ellison, Rev. C. C. 1971-5 Bishop Dopping's Visitation Book 1682-5, Ríocht na Mídhe, 5, 1, 28-39; 5, 2, 3-13; 5, 3, 3-11; 5, 4, 98-103; 6, 1, 3-13.

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Graveyard in Meath All County Meath records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map