Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Clondalkin, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clondalkin
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.32214, -6.39481
- SMR number
- DU017-041012-
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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
St John's Anglican church (C of I) aligned on a N-S axis was built in 1790 near the site of an earlier medieval church (DU017-041002-) a fragment of which now stands to the SE of the 18th-century church within the SE quadrant of the graveyard (dims. c. 50m N-S x 57m E-W) which is enclosed by a polygonal-shaped or roughly D-shaped wall with curving wall along E side of graveyard. This wall was considered 'very old' by Austin Cooper who mentioned it in his diary in 1780 (Price 1942, 54-6). The graveyard is entered through a gateway at NW with a second gateway leading to an extension on the S side. Within the E side of the graveyard there are two early-medieval granite crosses (DU017-041003/004) with an early-Christian baptismal font (DU017-041007-) in S quadrant of graveyard. Memorials in the graveyard date from the 17th-19th century and there are at least three architectural fragments from the levelled medieval church visible within the graveyard.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 18 July 2023
References
Price, L. (ed.) 1942 An eighteenth-century antiquary: the sketches, notes and Diaries of Austin Cooper, 1759-1880. Dublin.
Price, L. (ed.) 1942 An Eighteenth Century Antiquary. Falconer, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.