Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Kilcarn, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcarn
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.62877, -6.64245
- SMR number
- ME031-003001-
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
Located on a rise in a fairly level landscape. The parish church of Kilcarn (ME031-003----) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 55m E-W; c. 50m N-S) defined by earthen banks and trees, except on the N where the perimeter has been removed and the graveyard extended (dims c. 75m N-S; c. 55m E-W). The graveslab of Barry Humphry (ME031-003003-) is within the church (FitzGerald 1908) and a small cross-inscribed stone (ME031-003004-) is in the graveyard, but the decorated font (ME031-003002-) from this church (Roe 1968, 65-6) is now in the Roman Catholic church at Johnstown c. 900m to the NNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 January, 2015
References
FitzGerald, Lord W. 1908 Kilcarn. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, Ireland, 8, 610-11.
Roe, H.M. 1968 Medieval fonts of Meath. Meath Archaeological and Historical Society.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.