Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Summerhill Demesne, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Summerhill Demesne
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Place
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Place
- Coordinates
- 53.47047, -6.74656
- SMR number
- ME043-031001-
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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
Situated on a NW-facing slope of a prominent hillock, which was known as the Knock. The site of a chapel at Knocke (ME043-031----), which was a chapel-of-ease to Laracor (ME036-044----), is located within a subcircular graveyard (diam. c. 50-55m) defined by a masonry wall N-S-W, but the circuit is not completed W-N where the walls run to a NE-SW public road c. 60m to the NW. Trees grow inside the perimeter, and the headstones in the main date from the mid-18th century to the present, although the headstone of Mary from Summerhill (ME043-031002-) is dated 1689.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 March, 2015
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.