Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Mornington, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mornington
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.72179, -6.28266
- SMR number
- ME021-001002-
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 on a bluff overlooking the estuary of the SW-NE River Boyne with its tidal mud-flats immediately to the N and the canalised river c. 300m distant. The S-N Colpe stream enters the Boyne c. 100m to the W. The parish church of Mornington (ME021-001001-) is at the SW end of a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 75m NE SW; c. 25m NW SE at SW to c. 40m NW SE at NE) defined by masonry walls. The chest tomb (ME021-001003-) is within the area of the church.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 December, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.