Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Townparks (Balrothery East By.), County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townparks (Balrothery East By.)
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57368, -6.10529
- SMR number
- DU005-031007-
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1866 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Holmpatrick church site (DU005-031001-) and graveyard (DU005-031002-) lies at the SW end of a prominent ridge overlooking Skerries village and the E coast of Dublin. According to Campion (1969, 39) in 1893 T. U. Steel uncovered ; 'in the churchyard an Octagonal Font in bad condition half buried. He had two men dig it up and place it in a more suitable position. On one side there is a shield carved with a hand on it'
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Tomb - table tombunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.