Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Gracedieu, County Dublin, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (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
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- Graveslabunder 1 mi
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- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.