Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Bremore, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bremore
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Chapel (in Ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Molagas Ch. (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.61672, -6.19079
- SMR number
- DU002-002002-
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Shown on 5 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
In disused graveyard S of Bremore fortified house (DU002-002001-). This is reputed to be the early monastic site of 'Lann Beachaire' possibly founded by St. Molaga in the 7th-century (Walsh 1888, 252; Gwynn & Hadcock 1970, 396). Traditionally associated with the transportation of bees from Wales to Ireland by St Modomnócc (Newman Johnson 2007, 250). The 1992 describes the remains are of a late medieval church, which was the manorial chapel for Bremore, and comprised a rectangular featureless structure with undivided nave and chancel (13.1m E-W, 7m N-S, max. wall H 3m) and a small extension to the W (orientated NE-SW). Built throughout of coursed limestone masonry. Remains of doorway traceable in the N wall of the nave, which is incorporated into a garden wall. Lit by plain loop in S wall. Buttress near E end of S wall. Now extensively overgrown with only southern church wall discernable.
Fragments of decorated seventeenth-century stonework were cemented into place along interior of southern church wall, including a lintel (DU002-002006-) dated to 1689 and decorated with emblems of the Passion; two double-light decorated window heads (DU002-002005-). A carved crucifixion (DU002-002004-) has since been removed to Ardgillan Castle. A plain lintel also lies on the ground adjacent to the gate piers at the entrance to the graveyard. A mass dial thought to have come from the manorial chapel was recovered during excavations to the north of the site (DU002-014----).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 24 October 2014
References
Walsh, Rev. R. 1888 Fingal and its churches. Dublin. William McGee.
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Newman Johnson, D. 2007 Architrave from the Elizabethan period at Bremore Castle, County Dublin. In Manning, C. (ed.) From ringforts to fortified houses: studies on castles and other
monuments in honour of David Sweetman. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.