Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Johns Church on site of Church
- Coordinates
- 53.39026, -6.19226
- SMR number
- DU015-076003-
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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
The present mid-18th century church of St. John the Evangelist occupies an early ecclesiastical site associated with St. Brendan of Clonfert (Appleyard 1985, 51-61, 81, 97). Excavations in 1990 exposed portion of an earlier wall and a section of outer fosse and inner bank (Swan 1991, 25). Finds included a bronze penannular brooch, a small lead ingot and worked antler. Other elements of the early ecclesiastical site include a plain granite cross and a millstone of a horizontal watermill found in the grounds of the churchyard.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Appleyard, D.S. 1985 Green fields gone forever: the story of the Coolock and Artane Area. Dublin. Coolock Select Vestry.
Swan, D.L. 1991a Church of St. John, The Evangelist, Coolock. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1990: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 25. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.