Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Staffordstown (skreen By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Staffordstown (skreen By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.62776, -6.57809
- SMR number
- ME032-001001-
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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 site of the parish church of Staffordstown (ME032-001----) is on a shelf at the bottom of a gentle S-facing slope and probably within a rectangular grass-covered graveyard (dims c. 22m N-S; c. 20m E-W), although there is no physical evidence of it. The enclosure is defined by earthen banks (Wth 2-3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5-0.8m) and outer fosses (Wth of top c. 2-3m; ext. D 0.2-0.4m) on three sides, and a slight scarp at S. A small rectangular area defined by stone-facings and filled with stones at the NW angle of the enclosure may be a mausoleum (ME032-001004-). Apart from this there is no other evidence of burial in the enclosure, although it is described as a graveyard on the 1836 and 1909 eds of the OS 6-inch map. The font (ME032-001002-) from here was moved c. 1975 to the Roman Catholic church in Walterstown (ME032-077----), c. 2.5km to the SE, and the armorial plaque (ME032-001003-) from the Cussack monument in Trevet graveyard (ME038-017002-) that was here (Hickey 1971, 77-8) is now missing.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 22 January, 2015
References
Hickey, E. 1971 Monument to Sir Thomas Cusack. Ríocht na Mídhe, 4, 5, 75-91.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
- Mausoleumunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.