Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Baytown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baytown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.45935, -6.38941
- SMR number
- ME045-025001-
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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 rise in a level landscape. The parish church of Kilbride (ME045-025----) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 50m NE-SW at SE to c. 65m NE-SW at NW; c. 40m NW-SE) defined by masonry walls. The headstones date generally from c. 1800 to the present. All the headstones have been recorded (Moore and Kenny 1977) and some have dates as early as 1701, but the recumbent slab commemorating Rev. Robert Ford, parish priest of Dunboyne who died in 1609 (Cogan 1862-70, 1, 193) is not identified. Cogan (ibid. 191) also says that two ornamental crosses disappeared from the graveyard c. 1830.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 8 April, 2015
References
Moore, B.F.E. and Kenny, M. 1977 Headstones in Kilbride Graveyard (Barony of Dunboyne). Ríocht na Mídhe, 6, 3, 23-37.
Cogan, Rev. A. 1862-70 Ecclesiastical history of the diocese of Meath: ancient and modern. (3 vols) Dublin: John Fowler, Joseph Dollard
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.