Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Muchwood, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Muchwood
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Graveyard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Graveyard (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.51915, -6.94134
- SMR number
- ME035-018----
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 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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (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
Situated on a fairly level landscape. It is indicated faintly on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an oblong area (dims c. 37m NNE-SSW by c. 22m WNW-ESE) where its described as a 'Grave Yard' in Italic script, and it is indicated as the site of a grave yard on the 1912 edition. It was described in 1969 as ‘A few fragments of irregular grass-covered earthen and stone banks indicate site’ (SMR file).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 31 October 2013
Amended: 5 July, 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.