Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Monkstown Housefarm, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monkstown Housefarm
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.28995, -6.15060
- SMR number
- DU023-013002-
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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
Situated in a flat urban site to the NE of the junction of Carrickbrennan Road and Mounttown Road Upper.
A trapezoidal walled graveyard (N-S 60.2m, E-W 68.8m) accessed through a pointed arched gateway off the Carrrickbrennan Road N of Monkstown Castlefarm. Within the site are 18th and 19th century memorials.
In the interior of the graveyard the W gable of the medieval church (DU023-013001-) is incorporated into a 17th century charnel-house (DU023-013003-; Turner 1983, 28-29). The site occupies the location of an earlier site associated with the 6th century St. Mochonna, who was attached to the early monastery of Hompatrick, Skerries (Ball 1902, 41).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 22 May 2018
References
Turner, K. 1983 If you seek monuments: a guide to the antiquities of the barony of Rathdown. Rathmichael Historical Society.
Ball, E.F. 1902 Rathmichael and its neighbourhood. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 32, 113-27.
Nearby in the register
- Charnel houseunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Gatehouseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.