Graveyard in Killeen, County Meath

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What is recorded here

Situated at the SE end of a low NW-SE ridge. The fortified parish church of Killeen (ME038-013----), which is on the site of the older structure, is within a D-shaped graveyard (dims c. 50m WNW-ESE; c. 45m NNE-SSW) defined by masonry walls, with the straight side at N where it is bordered by a lane, but excavation (05E0414) found a medieval wall beneath the N lane wall, which may be the original boundary of the graveyard (Baker 2009, 66). The headstones date mainly from c. 1719 to c. 1890, with some later ones.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME038-013014

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Thomas Nugent, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
C O'Flanagan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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C O'Flanagan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Neil Forrester, Co.Meath, Ireland. http://neil.forrester.ie, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
Patrick Brown, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
August Schwerdfeger, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
Anthony Foster, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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