Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Swords Glebe, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Swords Glebe
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45797, -6.22307
- SMR number
- DU011-034018-
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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
During the renovation of the Old Vicarage building, human skeletal remains were uncovered after the removal of floorboards. The remains consisted of one partly articulated skeleton and scattered bone fragments over previously disturbed ground level. Prior to further archaeological work, the remains of an estimated further six skeletons were removed. Subsequent archaeological work (Licence no. 97E0272) revealed five more partly articulated skeletons, the orientations of which indicate that they were Christian burials pre-dating the construction of the 17th century vicarage and disturbed by its foundations (Dunne 1998, 61).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Dunne, G. 1998 The Old Vicarage, Swords. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1997: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 61. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.