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Graveyard

Vesingstown, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Vesingstown, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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