Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Follistown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Follistown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.63945, -6.60216
- SMR number
- ME025-037001-
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 on a sight NW-SE ridge in a fairly level landscape. The parish church of Follistown (ME025-037----) is within a neglected D-shaped graveyard (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 30m N-S) defined by masonry walls, but the church was not enclosed in 1682-5, according to Dopping’s Visitation (1682-5)(Ellison 1972, 7-8). The undecorated font was moved to Johnstown Roman Catholic church (ME025-041001-), c. 3km to the W, in 1852 (Cogan 1862-70, 2, 238) where it is set up outside the door.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 10 July, 2014
References
Cogan, Rev. A. 1862-70 Ecclesiastical history of the diocese of Meath: ancient and modern. (3 vols) Dublin: John Fowler, Joseph Dollard
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.
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.