Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Bellewstown (Duleek Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bellewstown (Duleek Upper By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.66108, -6.37677
- SMR number
- ME027-084----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (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
Tradition of site of burial of two Cromwellian soldiers marked by two stones in the middle of the field. Cromwellian soldiers occupied nearby Bellewstown castle during the Siege of Drogheda in 1649(pers. comm. Mr Colin Byrne, Briarleas, County Meath).
Compiled by Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 13/03
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.