Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Malahide, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Malahide
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45092, -6.15525
- SMR number
- DU012-023002-
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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
According to Flanagan (1984, 112) there was an early church site on the present site of St. Sylvester's RC Church. No architectural remains survive (O'Reilly 1910, 147-165). Test excavation (Licence no. 10E0426) was undertaken in advance of an extension to the modern church. Two post-medieval masonry walls, interpreted as the remains of the early 19th-century church building that previously occupied the site, a small undated pit/drainage gully and a silty deposit that may date from the medieval period, were identified. No burial remains were uncovered. Further testing (Licence no. 11E0326) uncovered medieval structural remains, ditch pits and 18th/19th century masonry walls.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 16 January 2015
References
Flanagan, N. 1984 Malahide: past and present. Malahide. Privately published.
O'Reilly, P.J. 1910 The dedications of the well and Church at Malahide. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 40, 147-65.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.