Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Castleboy (Skreen By., Tara Par.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleboy (Skreen By., Tara Par.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.58038, -6.61061
- SMR number
- ME031-033075-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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
Located at the crest of the E-facing slope of Tara hill. The parish church of Tara (ME031-033071-) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 75m N-S; c. 70m E-W) defined by a low earthen bank at N and traces of one on the other sides, which is retained externally by masonry walls. In the graveyard a sheela-na-gig (ME031-033018-) is represented on the taller stone of a stone pair (ME031-033019-).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 January, 2015
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.