Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Headstone
Rathcore, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcore
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45183, -6.84368
- SMR number
- ME048-002004-
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
In the graveyard associated with the site of the parish church of Rathcore (ME048-002----) and S of the W end of the present Church of Ireland church is a fragment of a headstone (Wth 0.2m; H 0.37m; T 5cm) that has the incised date 1690 or 1660 preceded by fragments of an inscription: ..SOW../..PAGEP D../. Beneath the date is a latin cross (H 0.23m; surviving span 0.13) formed by double incised lines.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 April, 2015
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.