Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Knockcommon, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockcommon
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.66686, -6.50577
- SMR number
- ME026-010001-
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a fairly level landscape with a small WSW-ENE stream c. 200m to the S. The parish church of Knockcommon (ME026-010----) is at the N side of a small rectangular graveyard (dims c. 35-50 N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined by earthen banks and hedges on every side except the N where the graveyard has been extended by a strip (dims c. 80m ENE-WSW; c. 30m NNW-SSE), which extends off to the N and E. Archaeological testing (98E0023) prior to the extension produce no related material (Murphy 2000). According to Dopping’s Visitation (1682-5) the graveyared was not enclosed (Ellison 1971, 36).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 25 March, 2019
References
Murphy, D. 2000 Knockcommon. Medieval church site. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1998: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 163, No. 510. Bray, Wordwell
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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatter1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.