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Church

Relick (Longworth), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Relick (Longworth), 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
Relick (Longworth)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Church
Latest-edition OS map
Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.56052, -7.60421
SMR number
WM017-005----

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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

Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular church standing in the centre of a rectangular shaped graveyard (WM017-005003-). The rectangular-shaped graveyard is enclosed by a post-1700 wall with remains of a relatively modern church standing in the centre of the graveyard. The graveyard contains many relatively modern tombstones. Immediately inside the graveyard wall there are the remains of a curving earthen bank which forms a circular enclosure around the church and may be the remains of an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure (WM017-005001-). The only other possibly early feature is a crossslab (WM017-005002-).
The terrier of the 1654-7 Down Survey map of Piercetowne parish recorded that 'on Relicke stands the ruins of a church' (NLI, MS 723-4).

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 13 February 2018

References

NLI, MS 723-4 - National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey for the County of Westmeath, attested by W. Petty, in 1659. Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 67 maps with accompanying terriers in two volumes, 1786-7. Dublin.

Nearby in the register

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

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