Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Loughtown Lower, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughtown Lower
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.31964, -6.49871
- SMR number
- DU021-001001-
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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 W quadrant of an ecclesiastrical enclosure survives inside the graveyard wall. Comprises a flat-topped earthen bank (dims. Wth c. 2m, H 0.90m-1m). It is associated with a holy well (dims. Wth c. 2m, H 0.90m-1m). The exterior is slightly raised. Still in use as a burial ground (D'Alton 1838, 673, Swan 1986, 7).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Uploaded on: 17 January 2012
References
D'Alton, J. 1838 (Reprint 1976) The history of the county of Dublin. Cork. Tower Books.
Swan, L. 1983 Enclosed ecclesiastical sites and their relevance to settlement patterns of the first millennium A.D. In T. Reeves-Smyth and F. Hamond (eds), Landscape archaeology in Ireland, 269-94. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 116. Oxford.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.