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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Loughtown Lower, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Loughtown Lower, County Dublin, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 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)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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