Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Chapel
St. Margaret'S, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- St. Margaret'S
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43298, -6.29988
- SMR number
- DU014-002003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A chantry chapel, apparently built by the Plunkett family (Tutty 1979, 155-157) in the sixteenth century lies southeast of the St. Margaret's medieval parish church (DU014-002002-). It is rectangular in plan (L 9m, WNW-ESE, Wth 4.9m, wall T 0.9m) and is entered through an elaborately decorated, pointed arched doorway which incorporates roll and hood moulding that terminates in a carved head. All the windows are blocked. There is a widely splayed window with chamfered, limestone jambs, and a square-headed window in the south wall. There is an aumbry on the same side. An L-shaped section of wall extends from the northeast angle of the chapel. An early 19th-century mausoleum is attached to the southeast corner. There are burials and big tree internally and there has been some rebuilding of the wall.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 21 January 2015
References
Tutty, M.J. 1979 Dunsogley Castle and St. Margarets Well. Dublin Historical Record 32, 155-7.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.