Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Agher (deece Upper By., Agher Par.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Agher (deece Upper By., Agher Par.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.45377, -6.75542
- SMR number
- ME048-009001-
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
Located towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. The site of the medieval parish church of Agher (ME048-009----) is within a D-shaped graveyard (dims c. 65m E-W; c. 48m N-S), which is defined by an earthen bank or scarp NW-SE and by masonry walls on the straight S and W sides. According to Dopping (1682-5) the graveyard was enclosed (Ellison 1972, 4). Headstones in the graveyard date from c. 1735 to the present but a slate graveslab dated 1771 and now in the graveyard includes the phrase ‘beneath this floor’ and would have come from the medieval church which was replaced by the present Church of Ireland church in 1804 (Lewis 1837, 1, 18).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 April, 2015
References
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.
Lewis, S. 1837 A topographical dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. London. Lewis and Co.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.