Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - chest tomb
Castletown (morgallion By.), County Meath, Ireland
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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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
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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.