Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Kilcooly (navan Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcooly (navan Upper By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilcooley Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilcooley Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.56896, -6.75256
- SMR number
- ME036-015001-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a prominent hillock in a gently undulating landscape. The parish church of Kilcooly (ME036-015----) is within a D-shaped graveyard (dims c. 45m ENE-WSW; c. 35m NNW-SSE) defined by masonry walls built around the base of the knoll. The few headstones date from c. 1850-1987. It is within the ecclesiastical enclosure (ME036-015002-) and the field system (ME036-014----) is c. 100m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 February, 2015
Amended: 5 July, 2019
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.