Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Castlekeeran, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlekeeran
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.74085, -6.95429
- SMR number
- ME016-006007-
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 in the valley of the NW-SE River Blackwater with the NW-SE stream c. 50m to the NE. An early monastery (ME016-006----) was plundered by Vikings in AD 949 and by Dermot MacMurrough in 1170. The grass-grown remains of a structure (ext. dims 14.5m E-W; 7.5m N-S) are in a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 65m E-W; c. 45m N-S) defined by earthen banks and hedges. Three high crosses, the base of another, a cross slab and an ogham stone are displayed in the graveyard. (Harbison 1970, 180-1)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 4 June, 2014
References
Harbison, P. 1970 Guide to the national monuments in the Republic of Ireland. Dublin. Gill and Macmillan.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.