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Graveyard

Staffordstown (Skreen By.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Staffordstown, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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