Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Vesingstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Vesingstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (Dissused)
- Coordinates
- 53.44418, -6.52621
- SMR number
- ME050-009001-
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. It is marked as a subrectangular area (dims c. 45m N-S; c. 15m E-W at N; c. 40m E-W at S) on the 1836 and 1909 eds of the OS 6-inch map and it is described on both as the site of a graveyard. Cogan (1862-70, 1, 189-90) records that the church (ME050-009----) had been destroyed and its graveyard desecrated c. 1830 when cartloads of bones were removed. A ditch had been dug through it and bones were protruding from its sides. It is recorded locally that bones were uncovered there in the mid-20th century (SMR file, 1968). There is no evidence of the church or burial.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 10 April, 2015
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrow1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.