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Graveyard

Kilmactalway, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Kilmactalway, 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
Kilmactalway
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.31107, -6.45940
SMR number
DU021-003002-

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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

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

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

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