Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Glassavullaun, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glassavullaun
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.23203, -6.35142
- SMR number
- DU025-033002-
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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
Kilmasantan church and graveyard situated on W facing slope of rising ground overlooking the E bank of the River Dodder in Glenasmole, in the Dublin Mountains. A graveyard sub-rectangular in plan (dims. 57m SW-NE x 37m NW-SE) enclosed by a post-1700 stone wall with entrance gate at E. Within the graveyard is a church (DU025-033001-) and inside the gate to the N there is a medieval font (DU025-033003-). In 1179 this church and its lands were a sub-manor of Tallaght and part of the extensive church lands of the See of Dublin. This manor occupied the upper eastern Dodder Valley (Nolan 1992, 185). Possible ecclesiastical enclosure (DU025-033005-) of Kilmansantan monastery adjoining the N side of this graveyard.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 10 March 2023
References
Nolan, W. 1992 Society and settlement in the valley of Glenasmole c. 1750-c.1900. In F.H.A. Aalen and K. Whelan (eds), Dublin city and county: from prehistory to present. Dublin. Geography Publications.
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.