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House - indeterminate date

Kilmacnevan, County Westmeath, Ireland

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Townland
Kilmacnevan
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.56509, -7.53411
SMR number
WM011-115004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Kilmacnevan monastic site placed on the Register of Historic Monuments in 1989. Extract from Iris Oifigiúil 25th April 1989. Situated on fairly well drained grassland with good views of the surrounding countryside. Kilmacnevan church (WM011-115---) graveyard (WM011-115001-) and high cross (WM011-115003-) immediately to NNE. The wall footings of a possible rectangular house (approx. diam. 5m N-S; 4m E-W) with an entrance at N (Wth 2m) are visible in the SW quadrant of Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure (WM011-115002-). The Schools' Collection of 1937-9 recorded the following folklore regarding these earthworks which stated that 'there was a town where the graveyard lies now. There was a monastery in the town and in one corner of the graveyard there are the ruins of the monastery' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, 281).

See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 28 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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