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Graveyard

Faughalstown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Faughalstown, County Westmeath, 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
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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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

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

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