Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 16th/17th century
Drinan, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drinan
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44709, -6.19542
- SMR number
- DU012-024001-
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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, Drynan House was a Jacobean mansion built during the reign of Charles 1 (1984, 52, 59). There is a housing estate on the site. A sheela-na-gig (DU012-024002-) was removed from a gate post at Drynan House in the 1940's and placed in the National Museum, Dublin (Dunlea 1945, 114).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Flanagan, N. 1984 Malahide: past and present. Malahide. Privately published.
Dunlea, P.P. 1945 A new sheela -na-gig. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 75, 114.
Nearby in the register
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.