Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Emlagh, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Emlagh
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.75187, -6.80722
- SMR number
- ME011-039001-
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 the S side of what was once an island in Emlagh bog. The site of the early monastery and parish church of Emlagh is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 45-65m N-S; c. 30-40m E-W) defined by earthen banks and hedges. In the interior are the remains of a mortuary enclosure (ext. dims 7m E-W; 5m N-S) with some 20th century headstones. The head of a cross (ME011-039004-), now taken into care by Meath County Council, was found in the graveyard in 2107. About 60m from the mortuary enclosure and at the base of the knoll on which it is situated is a slight scarp or ditch (Wth c. 5m; D 0.2-0.4m) N-E-S, which may form part of an ecclesiastical enclosure (ME011-039002-).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 22 May, 2014
Amended: 10 April, 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Causewayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.