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Graveyard

Kilbrew (Ratoath By.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Kilbrew, 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
Kilbrew (Ratoath By.)
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Coordinates
53.54454, -6.46116
SMR number
ME038-023001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located on a slight rise in a fairly level landscape, with a SE-NW canalised section of the Hurley River c. 380m to the NE. It is at the E edge of the Tayto Park entertainment complex. The site of the medieval parish church of Kilbrew (ME038-023----) is within a well-tended subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 70m E-W; c. 35-50m N-S) defined by masonry walls with headstones dating c. 1780-2007. There is a small mortuary enclosure (int. dims 6.55m; 4.55m N-S) defined by masonry walls (Wth 0.5m; max. int. H 1.5m) with an entrance gate at S that is marked on the 1836 ed. of the OS 6-inch map inside the perimeter at N.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 19 March, 2015

Nearby in the register

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

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