Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Shrine
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
- 53.71697, -6.54331
- SMR number
- ME019-060005-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In the graveyard on Slane Hill (ME019-060016-) there is a slab-shrine S of the church tower, which consists of two gable-shaped stones (W stone: dims 0.95m N-S; 0.25m E-W; H 1.4m; E stone: 1.12m N-S; 0.23m E-W; H 1.57m) placed 1.2m apart, but the side-stones are missing. There is a third pointed stone (dims 0.4m N-S; 0.16m E-W; H 0.44m) 0.9m to the E that may be part of it. (Westropp 1901, 418; Bradley and King 1985, 146; Seaver and Brady 2011)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 June, 2014
References
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.
Seaver, M. and Brady, C. 2011 Hill of Slane Archaeology Ireland, Heritage Guide No. 55
Bradley, J. and King, H.A. 1985 Urban archaeological survey - county Meath. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.