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Graveyard

Ardbraccan, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Ardbraccan, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ardbraccan
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
G. Yd.
Coordinates
53.65808, -6.74692
SMR number
ME025-022001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

The early church the site and the site of the parish church of Ardbraccan (ME025-022----) is located on a rise in a level landscape and is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 80m E-W; c. 65m N-S) defined by masonry walls (H c. 3m). According to Dopping's Visitation (1682-5) the church was already enclosed by a stone wall at that time (Ellison 1972, 10). The Montgomery tomb and other fragments are within the graveyard. Archaeological testing (15E0336) by A. Collins c. 40m W of the graveyard produced no related material (excavations.ie 2015:344), and further testing (18E0524) by E. Sullivan (2019) in a small area (dims c. 10m x c. 4m) c. 45m SW of the graveyard had a similar result.

See attached general view of the church and graveyard from the E.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 3 July, 2014
Amended: 5 February 2021, 9 April, 2021

References

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.

Sullivan, E. 2019 Licensed Archaeological Monitoring at Ardbraccan, Navan, Co. Meath. Licence: 18E0524. Unpublished report, Gort Archaeology

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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