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Graveyard

Newtownlow, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Newtownlow, 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
Newtownlow
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Coordinates
53.37926, -7.42734
SMR number
WM038-012001-

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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

Described in 1981 as 'A simple rectangular church (WM038-012----) aligned east-west, now almost completely shrouded in ivy. This appears to be an 18th C[entury] or early 19th C[entury] church. Built on to the west end of the church is a burial vault with an elaborately carved coat of arms of 18th C[entury] type. The church is in a subrectangular graveyard containing numerous 18th C[entury] & 19th C[entury] tombstones. There is nothing to indicate a date earlier that the 18th C[entury] for the site' (SMR file). The 1656 Down Survey parish map shows a castle and church and the terrier of the parish map recorded a 'Castle at Newtown with the walls of a church' (NLI MS 723-4). Low's Castle (WM038-015) is located 80m to the NE of the church and graveyard.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 27 April 2010

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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