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Graveyard

Knock, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Knock, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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 Unpublished report, ACS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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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