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Graveyard

Kilmeadan, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Kilmeadan, County Waterford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilmeadan
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Coordinates
52.24741, -7.24517
SMR number
WA008-018002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the E side of the S-N valley of the Dawn River with the river c. 200m to the W. The parish church of Kilmeadan (WA008-018001-) is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims. c. 75m N-S; c. 40m E-W). The present C of I church is built on the site of an older church, part of which survived until c. 1850 (Atkins 1895, 35-6), but it is not visible at ground level. (Power 1895b, 170-1)

Compiled by: Michael Moore.

Date of Upload: 3rd November, 2010.

References

Power, Rev. P. 1895 The ancient ruined churches of Co. Waterford. Waterford and South East of Ireland Archaeological Journal 1, 133-41, 162-72, 247-53.

Atkins, R. 1895 Old Waterford, its history and antiquities. Waterford and South East of Ireland Archaeological Journal 1, 20-38.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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