Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Ballymagarvey, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymagarvey
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.62210, -6.49037
- SMR number
- ME032-009001-
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
Situated on a bluff overlooking the valley of the W-E Nanny River, with a WNW-ESE section of the stream c. 50m to the NE. The parish church of Ballymagarvey (ME032-009----) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 45m E-W; c. 22m N-S at E to c. 30m N-S at W) defined by masonry walls and has headstones dating from c. 1757 to 1976. The font (ME032-009002-) is just E of the church, and the Balrath wayside cross (ME032-010----) was moved from its original position c. 270m to the ENE beside the old Kentstown to Duleek road and is now displayed at the SE angle of the graveyard (ME032-009003-). Archaeological monitoring (16E0582) by N. Colfer of an E-W drain c. 25m to the S at the closest point produced no related material, although a short wall footing thought to be post-medieval was encountered c. 50m SW of the graveyard (excavations.ie 2016:640).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 January, 2015
Amended: 12 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.