Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone head
Slanecastle Demesne, County Meath, Ireland
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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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
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 Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.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
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.