Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Kilmactalway, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmactalway
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.31107, -6.45940
- SMR number
- DU021-003002-
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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
A circular walled graveyard surrounded by farmland. The church of Kilmactalway is located within it (DU021-003001-; see Mason 1820, 51, Ronan 1941, 28). According to D'Alton (1838, 684) there was a baptismal font (DU021-003004-) in the graveyard, which is no longer in existence (Ní Mharcaigh 1997, 269-270).
Compiled by Geraldine Stout
References
Mason, W.M. 1820 The history and antiquities of the collegiate and cathedral church of St. Patrick, near Dublin. Dublin. Author.
Ronan, 1941 Cross-in-circle stones of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 71, Part 1, 1-8.
Ronan, M.V. 1941 Archbishop Bulkeley's Visitation of Dublin, 1630. Archivium Hibernicum 8, 56-98.
Ní Mharcaigh, M. 1997 The medieval parish churches of south-west County Dublin. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 97C, 245-96.
D'Alton, J. 1838 (Reprint 1976) The history of the county of Dublin. Cork. Tower Books.
Mason, W.S. 1814-19 A statistical account or parochial survey of Ireland, 3 vols. Dublin. Faulkner-Press.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.