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Graveyard

Kilmessan, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Kilmessan, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilmessan
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Coordinates
53.55827, -6.65948
SMR number
ME037-029001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located on a slight rise in a fairly level landscape, with the S-N Skane Rive c. 100-170m to the E. The site of the medieval parish church of Kilmessan (ME037-029----) is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 60m N-S; c. 55m E-W) defined by masonry walls, with trees inside the perimeter. Headstones date from 1705 to 1924, but there are no visible remains of the medieval church.
Archaeological testing (14E0137) by P. D. Sweetman in the field to the N and E of the graveyard confirmed the findings of a geophysical survey and identified the fosse of an enclosure (diam. c. 50m) centered on the E end of the graveyard (excavations.ie 2014:393). Human remains were apparent at two points in the top fill of dark grey loose sandy soil of the ditch, which was not excavated at any point. (Sweetman 2014)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 11 March, 2015
Amended: 26 May 2021

References

Sweetman, P. D. 2014 Report on Archaeological Assessment at Kilmessan, County Meath. Licence: 14E0137. Unpublished report, Author

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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