Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Dowth, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dowth
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard.
- Coordinates
- 53.70353, -6.44767
- SMR number
- ME020-019001-
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the NE-SW ridge of Dowth. The parish church of Dowth (ME020-019----) is in a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 60-65m E-W; c. 35-40m N-S) defined by masonry walls. The graveyard walls have been built since 1682-5 when Dopping describes the graveyard as unenclosed (Ellison 1973, 5). Archaeological monitoring (E002470) during 2006 of a road surface to the graveyard from the E produced evidence of two post-medieval walls (Russell 2007).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 June, 2014
Amended: 17 February 2021
References
Russell, I. 2007 Archaeological monitoring: Netterville Manor, County Meath. Licence: E002470. Unpublished report, ACS
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.
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.