Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Tailtin, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tailtin
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.70000, -6.78137
- SMR number
- ME017-031001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (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 on a slight rise in the floodplain of the NW-SE Blackwater River, with a N-S section of the stream c. 230m to the W. The church of Teltown (ME017-031----) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 53m E-W; c. 43m N-S) defined by earthen banks with external stone-facing, entered through a gate at N. The cross-base (ME017-031002-), cross-inscribed stone (ME017-031003-) and prehistoric rock-art (ME017-031004-) are within the graveyard.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 28 January, 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.