Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Bective, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bective
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.59170, -6.70228
- SMR number
- ME031-019002-
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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 relatively low ground at the N end of a SSW-NNE spur, with a S-N section of the River Boyne c. 30m to the E. A SSW-NNE section of the W-E Clady River is c. 50m to the W, and the confluence with the Boyne is c. 70m to the NE. Clady church (ME031-019----), which is a Capella ante Portas or church for the lay brothers of Bective Cistercian Abbey (ME031-026----), which is c. 1km to the S, is within a neglected subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 50m N-S; c. 15 E-W at S to c. 30m E-W at N) defined by masonry walls at S and W and earthen banks at N and E. A font (ME031-019003-) described by Wilde (1850, 95-6) as being in the graveyard is probably the font now in the Roman Catholic church at Robinstown (ME031-070----) c. 1.7km to the W. The souterrain (ME031-018----) is c. 40m SW of the graveyard.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 January, 2015
References
Wilde, W. 1850 The beauties of the Boyne and its tributary, the Blackwater (2nd ed). Dublin. McGlashan.
Nearby in the register
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.