Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - unclassified
Skeagh More, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skeagh More
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Abbey
- Latest-edition OS map
- Abbey (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.53965, -7.55619
- SMR number
- WM017-054----
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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 in a modern farmyard, 34m NE of Oldtown House. Church site (WM017-053----) c. 86m to WNW. Levelled monument not visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. Annotated ‘Site of Abbey’ on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map in the farmyard of Oldtown House which was enclosed by a range of agricultural outbuildings. On the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map, although annotated ‘Abbey (site of)’, the farm buildings at this location are no longer shown.
Levelled abbey described in 1978 as having no visible surface remains in an area that was occupied by modern farm sheds. No medieval wall or any fabric of medieval date could be identified in the range of upstanding buildings.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 10 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.