Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Kilbeg Upper, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbeg Upper
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.78035, -6.82222
- SMR number
- ME011-020001-
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
Situated on a slight rise in a fairly level landscape with a small NW-SE stream c. 50m to the N. The medieval parish church of Kilbeg (ME011-020----) is within a D-shaped graveyard (dims c. 45m N-S; c. 45m E-W) defined by a slight bank (int. H c. 0.1-0.4m; ext. H 1-1.4m) that is retained by an external stone cladding NW-E-SW. The original perimeter is absent SW-NW where the graveyard has been extended (dims c. 40-45m E-W; c. 30m N-S) to a N-S public road.
The cross-slab (ME011-020002-) is in the graveyard and there is a record by G. Du Noyer (1817-69) of a sundial (ME011-020003-) that is no longer present. Archaeological testing (E000622) by R. Meenan (excavations.ie 1991:103) NW of the graveyard produced evidence of some trenches (Wth of base 0.4-0.6m) cut into the subsoil overlain by a substantial wall with a shallow ditch on its N side. A large amount of slag and medieval pottery was recovered. (Meenan 1991)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 May, 2014
Amended: 30 July, 2014, 14 June 2022, 1 August 2023
References
Meenan, R. 1992 Kilbeg Upper: Anglo-Norman bailey. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1991: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 37, No. 103. Bray, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Sundialunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.