Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Killary, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killary
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.78964, -6.66587
- SMR number
- ME012-020001-
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 at the N end of a SE-NW spur with the S-N Killary Water stream in its valley c. 60m to the SW. The site of an early church and the parish church of Killary (ME012-020----) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 67m ENE-WSW; c. 45m NNW-SSE) defined by earthen banks. According to Dopping’s and the Royal Visitations (1682-5; 1697) the church was in ruins since 1641, although it was fenced (Ellison 1973, 6).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 22 May, 2014
Amended: 7 August, 2014
References
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.