Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Knightstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knightstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Garve Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.75044, -6.73390
- SMR number
- ME012-038001-
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 parish church of Kilsany, now called Kilshine (ME012-038----) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 45m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined by masonry walls. The circular font (ME0123-038002-) from this site is now at St. Columba’s Church of Ireland church, in Kells (ME017-044040-).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 May, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Passage tomb artunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.