Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Rathkenny, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathkenny
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.74664, -6.64546
- SMR number
- ME012-041001-
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 the medieval parish church of Rathkenny (ME012-041----) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 63m WNW-ESE; c. 52m NNE-SSW ) defined by masonry walls. The font from the graveyard is now in the porch of the old Roman Catholic church in Rathkenny (ME018-002----), c. 330m to the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 11 December, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Mausoleumunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.