Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sundial
Diméin Bhaile Ghib, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Diméin Bhaile Ghib
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69594, -6.75959
- SMR number
- ME017-034004-
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
The trapezoidal head (H 0.47m; Wth 0.37-0.68m) of a sundial with a circle (ext. diam. 0.31m) incised by double lines, radial lines and a central hole for the gnomon is built into the outer face of the SW wall of the subrectangular graveyard (ME017-034001-) at Donaghpatrick towards the S corner. This is of a type known as a scratch dial, common in England from the period 1200 to 1500, when they would have been installed on the S walls of churches (Ryan 2006).
See the attached image.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload; 15 April, 2019
References
Ryan, P. 2006 A scratch Sundial at Donaghpatrick, Co. Meath. Appendix in Eogan (2006, 30-1)
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.