Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Stagrennan, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stagrennan
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.71560, -6.31353
- SMR number
- ME020-006----
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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 on a rise on a slight N facing slope with the W-E estuary of the River Boyne c. 400m to the N. ‘Stagrennan of St. James’ is a possession of the Augustinian priory of Llanthony in Gloucestershire at the Suppression in 1540 (White 1943, 315), and a church is represented at Stagrennan on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map of Duleek while the terrier or commentary records ‘an old church at Stagrennan’ (D’Alton 1844, vol. 2, 447). However, Stagrennan is not recorded in the visitations of Ussher (1622) or Dopping (1682-5) as a church in the Duleek deanery (Erlington 1847-64 1, lxi-lxviii; Ellison 1971, 33-7). Sixty acres at Stagrinnan were held by John Bellew of Stammeen in 1640 (Simington 1940, 3).
The remains of a rectangular building (ext. dims c. 9m E-W; c. 6m N-S) can be traced within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 50m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) with some 19th century headstones and deciduous trees. The E gable survives but the cut stone from its pointed window arch is robbed. For the Down Survey barony map of Duleek see this web page accessed on 11 June, 2014: http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down survey maps.php#bm=Duleek&c=Meath
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 13 June, 2014
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1940 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. V: county of Meath. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
White, N.B. 1943 Extents of Irish monastic possessions, 1540-1541. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Ellison, Rev. C. C. 1971-5 Bishop Dopping's Visitation Book 1682-5, Ríocht na Mídhe, 5, 1, 28-39; 5, 2, 3-13; 5, 3, 3-11; 5, 4, 98-103; 6, 1, 3-13.
D'Alton, J. 1844 The history of Drogheda and its environs, (2 vols). Dublin. Author.
Erlington, C. R. (ed.) 1847-64 The whole works of the most Reverend James Ussher. 17 vols. Hodges and Smith, Dublin
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.