Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Dunmore, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmore
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 52.16410, -7.00300
- SMR number
- WA027-023002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a gentle S-facing slope at the head of a N-S valley leading to the sea at Dunmore Bay c. 1.2 km to the SSE. The fortified parish church of Killea (WA027-023001-), dedicated to St. Áed, is within a subrectangular graveyard (max. dims. c. 60m E-W; c. 35m N-S) defined by masonry walls on the W, N and E sides and a field bank at S. (Power 1890-1; Fewer 1996)
Power, Rev. P. (1890-91) The ancient ruined churches of Co. Warterford. JRSAI 20-21, 475-82.
Fewer, T. G. (1996) The ruined church of Killea: a consideration of its date and foundation. Decies, No. 52, 151-67.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.