Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Loughsallagh, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughsallagh
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.41541, -6.45211
- SMR number
- ME051-006001-
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 slight rise on a level landscape. A church (ME051-006----) was within an oval graveyard (dims c. 55m N-S; c. 35m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at SW: Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.8m) with trees and an outer flat-bottomed fosse or drain (at SW: Wth of top 4m; Wth of base 1.4m; ext. D 0.7m). St. Michael's holy well (ME051-006002-) is within the graveyard.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 November, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.