Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunsany
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.53618, -6.61756
- SMR number
- ME037-019001-
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
The fortified parish church (ME037-019----) of Dunsany is within a D-shaped graveyard (dims 68m E-W; 41m N-S) with the straight side at S where it is defined by an inner fosse (Wth 5.3m; int. D 0.5m; ext. D 0.5-1m) and outer bank (Wth c. 5m; ext. H 0.2m). Elsewhere the perimeter is defined by an outer scarp at W (Wth 2m; H 1.4m), which decreases around to N (Wth 5.5m; H 0.7m) and fades away on the E side. The headstones date generally from c. 1720 to c. 1950 with a few later inscriptions. The churchyard cross (ME037-019003-) is in the graveyard outside the N doorway of the church.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 10 March, 2015
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Cross - Churchyard crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.