Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Town Parks (lune By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Town Parks (lune By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Glebe
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.62154, -6.91828
- SMR number
- ME029-023012-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The medieval parish church of Athboy (ME029-023003-) is within a subrectangular or D-shaped graveyard (max. dims c. 90m NE-SW; c. 70m NW-SE) defined by masonry walls, that on the straight SE side having part of the town wall (ME029-023001-) at its base (L c. 75m). The 16th century double effigy tomb (ME029-023004-) that had been in the graveyard at the base of the church tower is now displayed in the vestry at the W end of the Church of Ireland church of St James. The Talbot graveslab (ME029-023005-) and the Cusack - Lutwidge chest-tomb (ME029-023015-) are in the graveyard, but other inscribed memorials that were recorded in the 1740s (Butler 1892-4) cannot be identified.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 January, 2015
References
Butler, I. 1892-4 Athboy (The yellow ford) Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland 2, 165-7.
Nearby in the register
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.