Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical site
Cruagh, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cruagh
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.25749, -6.30150
- SMR number
- DU025-003----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This record was listed in the Dublin RMP as 'ecclesiastical remains' and this classification has been changed to ecclesiastical site. According to O'Hanlon (1875, 268) St. Dalua of Dun-Tighe-Bretan, a disciple of St Patrick, whose feastday is celebrated on the 7th of January, may have founded a 6th-century church at Cruagh/An Chraobhach/Creevagh cemetery. The Martyrology of Donegal recorded that the 'original name of the place was Craobhach, afterwards corrupted into Cruagh. "Dalua of Craoibech" was of St. Patrick's household (Vita Tripartita), and is also called "Molua, a pilgrim of the Bretons" and commemorated on January 7 as "Dalua Tigh Bretan" (Martyrol. Tallaght; Martyrol. Donegal). Craoibech and Tigh Bretan (Tibradden) hills are near each other. A cairn [DU025-023001-] stands on Tighbretan, and the celebrated cromlech [DU025-002----], called Mount Venus, stands at Craoibech which in an inquisition of 1620 was called "Creevaghnetemple" and "Crevaghneclog", alias Newtown' (Ronan 1941, 31). Ní Mharcaigh (1997, 255) suggested the presence of an ecclesiastical enclosure at Cruagh and recorded that; 'the graveyard [DU025-003005-] at Cruagh contains a granite font [DU025-003002-] and there is some slight evidence of an enclosure'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 21 February 2023
References
O'Hanlon, Rev. J. 1875-1903 Lives of the Irish saints. Dublin, London and New York.
Ní Mharcaigh, M. 1997 The medieval parish churches of south-west County Dublin. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 97C, 245-96.
Ronan, M.V. 1941 Royal Visitation of Dublin, 1615. In Archivium Hibernicum 8, 1-55.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.