What is recorded here
Located towards the bottom of a SW-facing slope with a W-E section of the River Boyne c. 150m to the S. At its suppression in 1540 the Augustinian priory (ME046-018----) was described as a church that had long been the parish church, a cemetery, and other structures (White 1943, 311). The subrectangular graveyard…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME046-018001
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- Robin Pollard, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, br.pinterest.com
- Maker not stated on source page, storage.googleapis.com
- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
- Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.europeanheritageawards.eu
- Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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