Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burials (site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.34347, -6.31786
- SMR number
- DU018-020272-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1900 · Large scale plan of Dublin. (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library)
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The National Monuments Service's description
During the middle of the 19th century and in the 1930s, late 9th-century Norseburials were discovered on the lands of Islandbridge Memorial Park. Items from the grave included sword fragments, spear, abeads and a skeleton. The grave goods indicate one and possibly two burials , one female (Briggs, 1985, 94-108; De Courcy 1996, 205).
Nearby in the register
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Prisonunder 1 mi
- Barracksunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.