Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Clonee (dunboyne By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonee (dunboyne By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicatd
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not idicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41018, -6.44258
- SMR number
- ME051-007001-
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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 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 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 (04E0409) by M. E. Byrne in the area immediately to the E and S of the likely church site, on the possible location of the graveyard, produced no related material (excavations.ie 2004:1208).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 10 April, 2015
Amended: 21 July 2021
References
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
Cogan, Rev. A. 1862-70 Ecclesiastical history of the diocese of Meath: ancient and modern. (3 vols) Dublin: John Fowler, Joseph Dollard
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.