Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Townparks, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townparks
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killefree Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.68146, -7.29879
- SMR number
- WM003-096001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located 145m N of the market square in the village of Castlepollard. Large rectangular shaped graveyard (95m N-S; 70m E-W) known locally as Killefree Graveyard with ruins of a medieval church (WM003-096---) in NW quadrant. The graveyard is enclosed by a post-medieval stone wall with entrance gate at SW and NW angles. Graveyard contains memorials mainly dating from the post-medieval period onwards.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 14 July 2015
Nearby in the register
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.