Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Brownstown (skreen By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brownstown (skreen By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.63869, -6.55879
- SMR number
- ME026-014001-
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
Located towards the top of the NE-facing slope of a hill. The grass-covered foundations of the parish church of Brownstown (ME026-014----) are within a neglected subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 40m N-S; c. 40m E-W) with rounded corners defined by masonry walls that has a small number of headstones dating from 1786 to 1934. Cogan (1862-70, 1, 347-8) records that there was a tomb here of Catherine Plunkett, a daughter of Mathew Plunkett, baron of Louth, which would date c. 1700, but this tomb was not identified. Archaeological testing (16E0401) by D. Finn c. 80m to the NNE of the graveyard at the closest point produced no related material (excavations.ie 2016:526).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 22 December, 2014
Amended: 9 April 2021
References
Cogan, Rev. A. 1862-70 Ecclesiastical history of the diocese of Meath: ancient and modern. (3 vols) Dublin: John Fowler, Joseph Dollard
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.