Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Killyon, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killyon
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.48746, -6.97123
- SMR number
- ME041-006001-
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 N-facing slope with the W-E River Deel c. 35m to the N. The parish church of Killyon (ME041-006----) is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 40m N-S; c. 35m E-W) that has only modern boundaries of wooden and wire fences. The graveyard has headstones dating from 1757 to 1977. The holy well (ME041-006002-) is c. 20m to the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 20 March, 2015
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.