Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Bobsville,clonabreany, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bobsville,clonabreany
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.71546, -7.06886
- SMR number
- ME015-056007-
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
Situated on a rise in a gently undulating landscape. The early monastery of St. Caomhán Breac, which became the parish church of Diamor (ME015-056001-) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 45-55m E-W; c. 43-46m N-S) that was defined by earthen banks with trees. The perimeter at E forms the townland boundary with Clonabreany, but archaeological testing (90E0045) demonstrated that it was of relatively recent construction (excavations.ie 1990:091) (Meenan 1991). The graveyard is now surrounded by a masonry wall and contains a cup-marked stone, six cross-slabs and a medieval chest tomb. All the inscriptions have been recorded (Moore and Kenny 1976).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 17 June, 2014
References
Moore, B. F. E. and Kenny, M. 1976 Tombstones in Clonabreany graveyard. Ríocht na Midhe, 6, 2, 16-36.
Meenan, R. 1991 Clonabreany Churchyard, Bobsville. Graveyard in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1990: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 47, No. 91. Bray, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.