Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Grangegeeth, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grangegeeth
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.74882, -6.55593
- SMR number
- ME013-025001-
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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)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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
Situated at the summit of an E-W ridge in the NW-SE valley of the Devlin River, with the stream c. 50m to the S. The site of the Chapel-of Ease at Grangegeeth on the estate of the Cistercian monastery of Mellifont is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 35m WNW-ESE; c. 30m NNE-SW) defined by stone-faced earthen banks or scarps. One of the graves is a mortsafe i.e. enclosed in an iron cage as a deterrent to grave-robbers (Mytum 2013).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 11 December, 2014
References
Mytum, H. 2013 Combating Dublin body-shatchers: the Drumcondra mortsafe. Archaeology Ireland, vol. 27, No. 4, 23-5.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.