Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial Vault
Dunmoe, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmoe
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.67397, -6.63738
- SMR number
- ME025-018005-
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 at the edge of a S-facing slope down to a W-E section of the SW-NE River Boyne, with the stream c. 100m to the S. A round-headed doorway (Wth 0.86m) on the S wall of St. Catherine's church (ME025-018001-) leads to a chamber (ext. dims 6.05m N-S; 4.72m E-W) with a N-S barrel-vault, which is a later addition to the church. The chamber has a light in the E wall and a blocked light on the S wall. A passage (L 1.9m; Wth 0.75m) in the floor leads underground from the N to a burial vault (int. dims 2.95m E-W; 2.8m N-S), which has a N-S barrel-vault.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 June, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.