Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Jarretstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Jarretstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Old Burying Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.39342, -6.48056
- SMR number
- ME053-005001-
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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 low rise in a level landscape. A chapel-of-ease at Jarretstown in the large parish of Dunboyne is amongst nine chapels recorded by Cogan (1862-70, vol. 1, 190), who says that this church had been destroyed and the stones removed, including those around the graveyard, although burial continued until c. 1820. John O’Donovan, writing in 1836, records that the reilicín was still being used for the burial of unbaptized infants (Herity 1001, 114). It is marked as an irregularly-shaped area described as an 'Old Burying Ground' on the 1836 ed. of the OS 6" map. The foundations of a small building (ME053-005----) survive within a small sub-triangular enclosure (dims c. 20m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW) defined by low earthen banks or a plough scarp.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 13 April, 2015
References
Herity, M. (ed.) 2001 Ordnance Survey Letters: Meath. Dublin. Four Masters Press
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
- Castle - tower house1 mi
- Church1 mi
- Field system1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.