Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Churchtown (moygoish By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchtown (moygoish By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burying Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.58398, -7.57623
- SMR number
- WM010-012001-
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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
Situated on a low knoll or hillock in the NE corner of a field. Poorly preserved ivy-clad ruins of a long church (WM010-012----) standing in the centre of an oval-shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 50m N-S x 40m E-W) defined by a stone wall (H 1m) of modern appearance. Only the E and S walls of the church survive upstanding with grass-covered wall footings indicating the line of the church walls elsewhere. Curving graveyard wall from S to SW appears to be built on top of a low earth and stone bank, which appears to be the remains of an earlier graveyard boundary. The graveyard contains 18th and 19 century memorials. Low field banks or linear earthworks in the adjoining field to SW appear to be post-1700 in date.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 3 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.