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Burial ground

Gracedieu, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial ground, Gracedieu, County Dublin, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Gracedieu
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.51000, -6.22204
SMR number
DU007-015010-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Excavations in 1988 to the S of the Ballyboughal Road on a N facing slope close to Gracedieu Nunnery (DU007-015001-) revealed the poorly preserved remains of 65 individuals, 7 of which were placed in stone-lined and covered graves (Gowen 1989, 15-16). This cemetery lay in the ESE quadrant of an oval double-ditched enclosure (inner ditch dims. Wth 2.2m, D 1.4m; outer ditch dims Wth 5m, 2.15m). A sherd of E-ware indicates an Early Medieval date (Gowen 1989, 16-17).

Compiled by: Geraldine Stout

Updated by: Christine Baker

Date of upload: 16 April 2015

References

Gowen, M. 1989a Gracedieu. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1988: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 15, 16-17.Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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