Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Mothel, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mothel
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.29839, -7.41831
- SMR number
- WA007-010002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the crest of the W-facing slope of a N-S valley. The remains of Mothel Augustinian Abbey (WA007-010001-) are within a large rectangular graveyard (c. 90m NW-SE; c. 75m NE-SW), which contains parts of a chest tomb (WA007-010003-), three graveslabs and a cross-slab. (P. 1897; Harbison 1992b, 327)
Harbison, P. (1992b) Guide to the national and historic monuments of Ireland. Gill and Macmillan Ltd., Dublin.
P. (1897) Notes and querries - Cross inscribed pillar stone at Mothel. WAJ, 3, 117.
Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Date of upload: 08 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.