Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Painestown (duleek Lower By., Painestown Par.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Painestown (duleek Lower By., Painestown Par.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.68019, -6.57107
- SMR number
- ME026-002002-
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
Located towards the bottom of a gentle NW-facing slope. The parish church of Painestown (ME026-002----) is within a graveyard, which was described as fenced in Dopping's Visitation (1682-5) (Ellison 1971, 36), but the original extent of which is not certain. There is a concentrated area of burials (dims c. 45m E-W; c. 20m N-S at E to c. 30m N-S at W) around the church within a subrectangular area (dims c. 75-110m NE-SW; c. 60m NW-SE) defined by earthen banks with trees on each side except the NE where railings separate it from a N-S public road. Part of a sandstone font (ME026-002003-) and cut stones from a spire (ME026-002004-) are within the graveyard, but the stone effigy of a woman (ME026-002001-) was moved to St. Patrick’s Church of Ireland church in Slane (ME019-023001-) where it is displayed on the S wall of the vestry.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 July, 2014
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.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.