Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Kilbrew (ratoath By.), County Meath, Ireland
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-
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 1799 "Ireland." (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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- House - 17th/18th centuryunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.