Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Rathmacknee Great, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmacknee Great
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Latest-edition OS map
- G. Yd.
- Coordinates
- 52.26890, -6.49063
- SMR number
- WX042-029006-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
Situated on a slight rise in a low-lying landscape. The site of the parish church of Rathmacknee (WX042-029002-) is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 40-50m E-W; c. 30-40m N-S) defined by masonry walls, except at W where there is an earthen bank and trees. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 the graveyard was within a rath (WX042-029004-), but if this is an early ecclesiastical enclosure there is no other evidence of an early origin for the church. There are two graveslabs (WX042-029008-; WX042-029009-) in the graveyard. Rathmacknee tower house (WX042-029001-) and bawn (WX042-029005-) are c. 30m to the N, and the site of St Martin's Well (WX042-029003-) is c. c. 100m to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 28 May, 2013
Amended: 16 August, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.