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Church

Salestown, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Salestown, 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
Salestown
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Church (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Church (Site of)
Coordinates
53.40495, -6.54234
SMR number
ME050-025----

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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 a level landscape. A chapel at Salestown in the large parish of Dunboyne does not occur in the ecclesiastical lists, but a decayed chapel at Salestown is listed in the Civil Survey (1654-6) Simington (1940, 125). it is amongst nine chapels in Dunboyne parish recorded by Cogan (1862-70, 1, 191), who says that the walls were torn down. FitzGerald (1917-18) says that only the foundations of the chancel were visible. This is a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 35m NE-SW; 30 NW-SE) defined by masonry walls, and the remains of the church are evident as a grass-covered cairn (dims 7-8m x c. 4.5m; H 0.5m).

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload/revision: 10 April, 2015

References

Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1940 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. V: county of Meath. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.

Cogan, Rev. A. 1862-70 Ecclesiastical history of the diocese of Meath: ancient and modern. (3 vols) Dublin: John Fowler, Joseph Dollard

FitzGerald, Lord W. 1917-18 Salestown Churchyard, Parish of Dunboyne. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, Ireland. 10, 127-8.

Nearby in the register

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

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