Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Balreask Old, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balreask Old
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burrying Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Gd. (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.63933, -6.66904
- SMR number
- ME025-036001-
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 E edge of a plateau overlooking a SSE-NNW section of the Rive Boyne, which is c. 150m to the NE. A church at Balreask (ME025-036----) is marked as a small feature described as the site of an old chapel on the 1836 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is situated towards the N angle of a lightly outlined area (dims c. 40m NE-SW; c. 40m NW-SE) described as a ‘Burying Ground’ on the same map. The graveyard is depicted as a rectangular hachured feature (dims c. 40m NE-SW; c. 35m NW-SE) on the OS 25-inch map. There are no visible remains of a monument in an area now largely buried under a yard. Archaeological monitoring (17E0283) by C. Brady of foundation trenches at the location produced no evidence of the church or graveyard (excavations.ie 2017:068).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 July, 2013
Amended: 14 April, 2021
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.