Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Middleborough, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Middleborough
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Graveyard
- Coordinates
- 53.45529, -6.94105
- SMR number
- ME047-014----
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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 rise in a gently undulating landscape, it is known locally as Kilglass burial ground. At the Suppression in 1540 the abbey of Clonard (ME047-007----) owned 60 acres at Kyleclass but there is no mention of a church (White 1943, 310). In 1641 110 acres at Longwood were owned by Nichols Plunket of Longwood, and on the premises were a castle, a mill and a weir but, there is no mention of a church (Simington 1940, 192). A graveyard is depicted on Larkin’s map (1812) and a rectangular enclosure described as a graveyard is depicted on the 1836 and 1912 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is a raised rectangular area (dims c. 53m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE; H c. 2.4-2.6m) retained by masonry walls (H 1-1.4m). It contains headstones dating from 1724 to the 1950s, including the grave of Tomás O hAllamain, a volunteer who died in Dublin at Easter 1916, but there is no evidence that there was ever a church here and there is no record of one.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 13 August 2019
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1940 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. V: county of Meath. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
White, N.B. 1943 Extents of Irish monastic possessions, 1540-1541. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.