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Graveyard

Slanecastle Demesne, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, 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
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Coordinates
53.71705, -6.54323
SMR number
ME019-060016-

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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

Situated at the summit of the Hill of Slane. St. Patrick lit the Easter fire on the Hill of Slane in defiance of the High King, and thus announced the arrival of Christianity in Ireland. The medieval parish church of St. Patrick (ME019-060002-), perhaps on the site of an early monastery, is within a sub-oval graveyard (dims c. 80m E-W; c. 34-43m N-S) defined by masonry walls. The shrine (ME019-060005-) and graveslab (ME019-060006-) are within the graveyard, while the architectural fragments (ME-019-060003-) and the stone head (ME019-060004-) are incorporated in the graveyard wall around the entrance gate at E.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload; 11 June, 2014

Nearby in the register

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

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