Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Drakestown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drakestown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.77568, -6.74009
- SMR number
- ME012-024001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located towards the S end of a low N S spur. The parish church of Drakestown (ME012-024----) is within a D-shaped graveyard (dims c. 50m NW-SE; c. 46m NE-SW) backing onto a NE-SW field bank at SE. A mouth-pulling face that was built into a gate pier (Davies 1941, 64-6) is now missing (ME012-024002-). The cross-slab (ME012-023----) is c. 130m to the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload; 11 December, 2014
References
Davies, O. 1941 Miscellanea: Drakestown graveyard, Co. Meath. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 71, 64-6.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Exhibitionist figureunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.