Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Faughalstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faughalstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.64427, -7.33224
- SMR number
- WM007-045001-
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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
Early medieval church (WM007-045----) and graveyard at Faughalstown, reputedly founded in the sixth-century by Diarmuid, son of Lughna, possibly descended from the Uí Fiachrach clan. Faughalstown or Fochlaid was possibly a proprietory church of the Uí Fiachrach Cúile Fobair (Masterson 1998, 44-5). Diarmuid was the patron saint of the parish of Faughalstown (Ó Riain 2011, 516).
Ruins of medieval nave and chancel church standing in NE quadrant of oval-shaped graveyard with curving field boundary of larger ecclesiastical enclosure (WM007-045002-) 40m N of church with shoreline of Lough Derravaragh 160m to SSW. Wayside cross (WM007-049----) 620m to E, St. Dermots Well (WM007-048----) located 430m to SSE, Mortimer's Castle (WM007-044----) 690m to WNW.
Poorly preserved remains of a nave and chancel church which forms N boundary of rectangular shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 30m N-S; 40m E-W) as depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. On the revised 1913 ed. OS 25 inch map the graveyard (dims. 70m E-W; 43m N-S) is enclosed by a larger oval shaped wall of post-1837 date. Entrance located at E end of S wall of graveyard.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 8 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.