Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical site
County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Bullys Acre
- Coordinates
- 53.34248, -6.30616
- SMR number
- DU018-020283-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
American Geographical Society Library, UW-MilwaukeeLionel 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 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1908 · Dublin, Ireland 1908 (American Geographical Society Library, UW-Milwaukee)
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The National Monuments Service's description
There is a general consensus that the 'Cill Maignenn' which givesKilmainham its name was a 7th-century foundation associated with St. Maignenn. A possible location for this monastery is along the W boundary of the present grounds of the Royal Hospital in the area known as Bully's Acre where there is a graveyard containing a shaft of a 9th-11th-century high cross (18:20(284)). This graveyard has been closed for interments since the cholera epidemic of 1832. It was enclosed in 1760 by General Dikes, Commander of the Forces who caused the ground to be levelled and a stone wall built around it. It was a paupers graveyard up until the 19th-century. Human burials were uncovered during the construction of a new water main into the Royal Hospital via the W avenue (OPW 30/6/81, Clarke 2002, 17, 18).
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.