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Graveyard

Rathmacknee Great, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Rathmacknee Great, County Wexford, 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
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-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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

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

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