Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Chapel
Knockisland (duleek Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockisland (duleek Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.65338, -6.39655
- SMR number
- ME027-082----
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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
Site known locally as the Chapel bank. There is a local tradition that mass was said here in Penal times. A nearby field called the 'watching park' is where people used to keep watch while mass was being said. Identified by Du Noyer (1866) on Geological Survey maps as 'site of ancient chapel' (pers. comm. Mr Colin Byrne, Briarleas, County Meath).
Compiled by Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 13/03/2012
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.