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Stone head

Slanecastle Demesne, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Stone head, Slanecastle Demesne, 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
Slanecastle Demesne
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.71713, -6.54262
SMR number
ME019-060004-

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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

A female stone head is set into the N pier of the entrance to the graveyard (ME019-060016-), and two architectural fragments (ME019-060003-) are set in the graveyard wall nearby. The head (Wth 0.2m; H 0.36m; D 0.26m) has bulging eyes, a pillbox hat decorated with foliage at the front but at thes sides are animals. (Westropp 1901, 420; Bradley and King 1985, 146)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 11 June, 2014

References

Bradley, J. and King, H.A. 1985 Urban archaeological survey - county Meath. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.

Westropp, T. J. 1901 “Slane in Bregia,” county Meath: its Friary and Hermitage. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 31, 405-30.

Nearby in the register

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

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