Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Town Parks (kells Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Town Parks (kells Upper By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ch. Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.72686, -6.87250
- SMR number
- ME017-044035-
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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
The priory of the Crutched Friars of St. John at Kells (ME017-044026-) was situated outside the town on the Dublin road, at the bottom of the E-facing slope. There are no visible remains of a church in a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 45m E-W; c. 30m N-S) defined by masonry walls. There is a cross-slab, a 13th-century effigy of a woman, and a large fragment of a graveslab in the graveyard. Archaeological monitoring (02E1244) of the construction of a new wall at the S and W of the graveyard demonstrated that the wall was built on bedrock (D c. 0.6m) (Meenan 2004). Repairs to the graveyard wall were archaeologically monitored (E005304) by N. Roycroft during 2021 and some sixteenth century architectural fragments and a possible sixteenth century graveslab were identified on the surface while the probably site of a church was also recognised (excavations.ie 2021:550). A full survey of the graveyard inscriptions has been undertaken (Mc Cabe 2007)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 July, 2014
Amended: 10 March 2023
References
Meenan, R. 2004 St. John's grave yard, Kells. Graveyard. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 417-8, No. 1479. Bray, Wordwell
Mc Cabe, B. 2007 Survey of St. John's Graveyard, Kells. Ríocht na Mídhe, 18, 136-150.
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Fratres Cruciferiunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.