Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Danestown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Danestown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.62335, -6.52372
- SMR number
- ME032-008001-
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a slight rise of a S-facing slope near the W head of a small W-E valley. The parish church of Danestown (ME032-008----) is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 65m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE at NE to c. 48m NE-SW at SW) defined by a stone-faced earthen bank (Wth c. 4-5m). The inscriptions of many of the headstones have been published (Moore et al. 1974). Three pieces of window sill are used as grave-markers, and the head of an ogee-headed window and pieces of window tracery are in the graveyard. Inside the entrance on the N side of the graveyard there is part of a font (ME032-008002-). The perimeter of Danestown rath (ME032-007----) is c. 15m outside the graveyard to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 January, 2015
References
Moore, B.F.E., Cawkill, F., and Cawkill, J. 1974 Some interesting tombstones in Danestown, Co. Meath. Ríocht na Mídhe, 5, 4, 87-97.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.