Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Drumlargan, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumlargan
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.46076, -6.71021
- SMR number
- ME043-037001-
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 slight E-facing slope. The parish church of Drumlargan (ME043-037----) is within a neglected sub-oval graveyard (dims c. 60m NE-SW; c. 45m NW-SE) defined by masonry walls, with scrub on the perimeter. The graveyard was not enclosed in the late 17th century, according to Dopping (1682-5) (Ellison 1972, 6), and Cogan (1862-70, 2, 385) says it was only 'lately enclosed. The few headstones date from c. 1784 to c. 1908, but the graveyard is within a larger ecclesiastical enclosure (ME043-037002-).Archaeological testing (04E0745) by C. Duffy c. 90m to the NE at the closest point and on the likely line of the ecclesiastical enclosure ditch produced no related material (excavations.ie 2004: 1224).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 March, 2015
Amended: 12 Jluy 2021
References
Cogan, Rev. A. 1862-70 Ecclesiastical history of the diocese of Meath: ancient and modern. (3 vols) Dublin: John Fowler, Joseph Dollard
Ellison, Rev. C. C. 1971-5 Bishop Dopping's Visitation Book 1682-5, Ríocht na Mídhe, 5, 1, 28-39; 5, 2, 3-13; 5, 3, 3-11; 5, 4, 98-103; 6, 1, 3-13.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.