Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Slanecastle Demesne, County Meath, Ireland
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-
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
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
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Shrineunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.