Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Exhibitionist figure
Drakestown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drakestown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77547, -6.74014
- SMR number
- ME012-024002-
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
At one time built into a gate-pier at the entrance to the graveyard (ME012-024001-) at S. A carved stone with a mouth-pulling face (H c. 0.2m) that was recorded by O. Davies (1941, 64-6) was noted as missing in 2014.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 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.