Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Ardbraccan, County Meath, Ireland
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-
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
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 Unpublished report, Gort Archaeology
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