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Graveyard

Portraine, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Portraine, 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
Portraine
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.49388, -6.11197
SMR number
DU008-031002-

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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

A small walled, rectangular graveyard (L50m, Wth 25m) N of road at Portraine village overlooking the Dublin coastline and Lambay Island. It encloses the remains of a medieval church (DU008-031001-), the interior of which has been used for internments. There are 18th, 19th and 20th century grave memorials, running E-W around the church remains. Still in use. Archaeological test excavation was undertaken at the graveyard in advance of the insertion of lighting and associated ducting. Disarticulated human bone, medieval and post-medieval pottery and fragment of worked flint were recovered. Three archaeological deposits including two of shell were identified as well as a section of east-west limestone wall (Hagen 2002).

Compiled by: Geraldine Stout

Updated by: Christine Baker

Date of upload: 19 December 2014

References

Hagen, I. 2002, Final Report, Archaeological assessment, Portraine Graveyard. Licence 02E1451. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

Nearby in the register

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

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