Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Rathcoole, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcoole
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- G. Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.28181, -6.46376
- SMR number
- DU021-030002-
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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
This walled, roadside graveyard in Rathcoole village encloses the site of a medieval parish church (DU021-030001-). The ground surface within rises towards the N, with the current church set on and dug into the crest of the burial ground. As well as a fine vault, several table tombs, and gravemarkers dating to the 18th and 19th century within the graveyard there is a granite stone cross (DU021-030003) and holed stone (DU021-030) embedded in the ground surface both at the SE of the church. Austin Cooper's diaries from the 18th century (Price 1942, 54) also describes a stone with traces of a granite cross near a graveslab in the present C of I churchyard (DU021-03005-).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Margaret Keane
Revised on: 20 March 2018
References
Ball, E.F. 1902-20 (Reprint 1979) A history of the County Dublin, 6 vols. Dublin. Gill and Macmillan.
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.
Price, L. (ed.) 1942 An Eighteenth Century Antiquary. Falconer, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Holed stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.