Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Monktown (Skreen By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monktown (Skreen By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.61674, -6.55427
- SMR number
- ME032-017001-
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 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Located towards the top of a S and E-facing slope. The parish church of Monktown (ME032-017----) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 45m E-W; c. 40m N-S) defined by earthen banks (Wth c. 5m; int. H 0.2-0.4m normally to 1.5m at W (uphill); ext. H c. 1-1.5m) retained by external masonry walls on all sides except the E where there is a scarp (H 1.5m) and the graveyard has been extended (dim. c. 30m E-W) to reach a S-N access lane. The headstones in the old graveyard date from c. 1775.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 January, 2015
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.