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Tomb - chest tomb

Castletown (Morgallion By.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Tomb - chest tomb, Castletown, 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
Castletown (Morgallion By.)
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.78673, -6.71449
SMR number
ME012-016003-

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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)
  • 1799 · 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

A fragment of a tomb-surround that might be from the same tomb as the female effigy (ME01-016002-) on the E gable of the church is built into the tower over the doorway. (Hunt 1974, 1, 204)

From Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 204): No. 185. Fragments of a tomb-chest Late 15th century. (Kilpatrick)
Built into the wall over the south door in the tower of the church are some fragments of a late fifteenth-century tomb-chest with figures of saints. They are in the typical Meath style and portions of two figures of a side- or end-slab remain. On the dexter is St. Catherine, crowned, and with a sword held in both hands, and on the sinister, the upper portion of St. Peter holding a large key upright in his right hand. Both figures stand under foliate ogee niches.

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Date of upload: 11 December, 2014

References

Hunt, J. 1974 Irish medieval figure sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish University Press.

Nearby in the register

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

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