Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Girley, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Girley
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.66610, -6.92407
- SMR number
- ME023-015001-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in an undulating landscape. This is a sub-rectangular graveyard (c. 35m x c. 66m) surrounded by a stone wall containing the remains of a church (ME023-015----). The head of a high cross (ME023-022----) was formerly incorporated in the roadside wall at the entrance together with a number of architectural fragments (ME023-015002-); there is no visible trace of the former.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 9 October 2012
Amended: 31 July, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.