Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Bremore, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bremore
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd. (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.61660, -6.19105
- SMR number
- DU002-002003-
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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
This is a disused graveyard (L 40m, Wth28m) SW of Bremore fortified house (DU002-002001-) which 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). It is completely overgrown with elders and briars but a masonry wall is visible along the N side of the site. In the graveyard are remains of a church (DU002-002002-) and a finely carved and sculptured door lintel with instruments of the passion, dated 1689 (Wth 0.45m, D. 0.53m) (DU002-002006-) (Newman Johnson 2007, 252).
A survey of the headstones was undertaken in 1993 (Egan). As part of the Conservation Plan undertaken in 2011/12, an electrical resistivity survey (Detection Licence No. 11R0038) was carried out by Target Ltd. within the walled garden immediately north of the graveyard. No indication of an ecclesiastical enclosure associated with the early medieval foundation associated with St Molaga’s graveyard was identified.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 24 October 2014
Egan, M.J. 1993 ‘Bremore graveyard’. In Memorials of the Dead, Dublin City & County No.6
References
Walsh, Rev. R. 1888 Fingal and its churches. Dublin. William McGee.
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.
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Egan, M.J. 1993 Bremore Graveyard. In Memorials of the Dead, Dublin City & County No. 6.
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.