Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Kilbeggan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbeggan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.36568, -7.50247
- SMR number
- WM038-017002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Nothing remains today except the disused graveyard located on a knoll 330m south-west of the market square in the town of Kilbeggan (WM038-017----) which probably also marks the site of St Beagán's church (WM038-017001-) (Bradley et. al. 1985, 103-04). The Urban Survey suggested that the church of St Beagán was located in or beside the old graveyard south-west of the town but definite evidence can only be obtained by archaeological excavation (ibid. 104). In 2003 a geophysical survey carried out by GeoArc Ltd revealed the sub-surface footprint of the levelled Cistercian abbey (WM038-017007-) in the field immediately to the W of the graveyard (Hayden 2006, 522).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 14 April 2014
References
Hayden, A. 2006 Site 1, Kilbeggan. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 522. Bray. Wordwell.
Bradley, J., Halpin, A., and King, H. 1985 Urban archaeological survey - county Westmeath. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Cistercian monksunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.