Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
St. Catherine'S Park, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- St. Catherine'S Park
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Catherines Chapel (in ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.36488, -6.47225
- SMR number
- DU017-003----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated on the north bank of the River Liffey. Located at the base of a hill by tarmaced walkway within St Catherine's Park. This is a late structure into which architectural fragments of medieval date have been inserted. It is built of limestone masonry and brick with plastered brick crenellations. Entrance is in the W through a Tudor-style doorway. The interior is overgrown (L 8.20m E-W, Wth 7.1m). There is a fine double-light, cusped, tracery window in E gable and two tall, pointed arched windows of brick in the S wall (D'Alton, 1838, 663-664; Joyce 1912, 358-359). According to a 2011 structural survey 'The structure is very vulnerable and decaying rapidly. It is a good example of the damage that can be inflicted on buildings by uncontrolled vegetation'.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 29 January 2015
References
Joyce, W. St. John 1912 (Reprint 1995) The neighbourhood of Dublin by Weston St. John Joyce. Dublin. Hughes and Hughes.
D'Alton, J. 1838 (Reprint 1976) The history of the county of Dublin. Cork. Tower Books.
Nearby in the register
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Stone headunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.