Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Knock, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knock
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.76281, -6.68061
- SMR number
- ME012-033001-
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
The site of an early church that became the parish church of Knock (ME012-033----) is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 52m E-W; c. 46m N-S). The cross (ME012-033002-), font (ME012-033003-) and bullaun stone (ME012-033005-) are in the graveyard. Archaeological testing (00E0528) by I. Russell c. 60m to the NW produced no related material (excavations.ie 2000:747) (Russell 2000).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 May, 2014
Amended: 18 August, 2014; 16 February 2021; 1 August 2023
References
Russell, I. 2000 Report on an Archaeological Assessment of a Proposed Dwelling House and Waste Water Treatment System at Knock, Castletown, Navan, Co. Meath. Licence: 00E0528. Unpublished report, ACS
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.