Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Dunleer, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunleer
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- SS. Brethan and Frethans Church
- Coordinates
- 53.83184, -6.39382
- SMR number
- LH018-064002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
There is a strong local tradition of association with St Bridget, but a monastery was probably founded here by SS Forodran and Baithren in the sixth or seventh century. Abbots are known here from AD 721 and their obits are recorded until the end of the ninth century. There are no physical remains visible other than the possible outline preserved in the street-scape. There is a medieval pointed arch of a doorway and a round-headed window in the W tower of the modern parish church (Bradley 1984b, 141). (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 35; CLAJ 1944, 282-3)
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.