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Graveyard

Knockcommon, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Knockcommon, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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