Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Clonee (dunboyne By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonee (dunboyne By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41038, -6.44293
- SMR number
- ME051-007----
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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 level landscape within Clonee village, with a W-E section of the NW-SE Tolka River c. 70m to the N. A chapel at Clonee in the large parish of Dunboyne does not occur in the ecclesiastical lists, but it is amongst nine chapels in the parish recorded by Cogan (1862-70, 1, 190). He says that this church had been removed together with its graveyard, which was partly occupied by a police station. The church may have been dedicated to a St Mell, perhaps St Meal of Ardagh, Co. Longford, as in describing the bounds of Clonee in the Civil Survey (1654-6) (Simington 1940, 122) it states ‘…with the river Tollochyne (Tolka) betwixt it and part of the lands of Portan with a bridge passing over it to St Melles his Chapell on the west..’. The police station is marked on the 1836 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, although the precise location of the chapel is uncertain. Inhumations dating to the 18th or 19th century were recovered in the vicinity in 1965 (NMI file). Archaeological testing (01E0808) by G. Scally just W of the possible site of the church and graveyard produced no related material (excvations.ie 2001:950), and testing (04E0409) by M. E. Byrne just to the E and S had a similar result (excavations.ie 2004:1208).
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 revision: 10 April, 2015
References
Cogan, Rev. A. 1862-70 Ecclesiastical history of the diocese of Meath: ancient and modern. (3 vols) Dublin: John Fowler, Joseph Dollard
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1940 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. V: county of Meath. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Hayden, A. 2007 Main Street, Clonee: no archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 299, No. 1208. Dublin, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.