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Graveyard

Monknewtown, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Monknewtown, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Monknewtown
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yd.
Coordinates
53.71693, -6.46951
SMR number
ME019-019001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (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 parish church of Monknewtown (ME019-019----) is in N part of a square graveyard (dims 34m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by masonry walls, which contains memorials dating from 1768-1962. There is a churchyard cross (ME019-019004-) in the gravyeard. The font (ME019-019003-) in now in front of the Roman Catholic church of Monknewtown, c. 75m to the N (ME019-018----).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 05 November 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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