Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Commons (duleek Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Commons (duleek Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.65523, -6.41866
- SMR number
- ME027-038019-
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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
The daimhliagh or stone church of St. Cianán (ME027-038003-)was established within a large ecclesiastical enclosure (dims c. 325m N-S; 380m E-W) that has become fossilised in the street system, being bounded by Larrix St. N-E, Main St. E-S-SW, and a curving lane connecting Main St. and Larrix St. SW-N (Swan 1983, 269).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14 August, 2014
References
Swan, L. 1983 Enclosed ecclesiastical sites and their relevance to settlement patterns of the first millennium A.D. In T. Reeves-Smyth and F. Hamond (eds), Landscape archaeology in Ireland, 269-94. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 116. Oxford.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.