Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kilbride (talbotstown Lower By.), County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbride (talbotstown Lower By.)
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.19869, -6.46403
- SMR number
- WI001-022001-
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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 on the NE edge of a low ridge overlooking the Brittas river (to the E). This graveyard (WI001-022003-) is possibly the site of an Anglo-Norman parish church (WI001-022002-; Price 1953, 274) of which there are no visible remains at ground level. Part of an enclosure (WI001-022001-) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; H 1.8m), predating the eighteenth-century graveyard wall, survives on the E side. According to local tradition this is the original location of a font which is currently located outside St Brigid's Church c. 200m to the W (see WI001-046----) . There is an early graveslab (WI001-022005-) in the W sector of the graveyard and a cross-slab (WI001-022006-) from this graveyard is in the National Museum of Ireland (Reg. No. 1970:189).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997), no. 837. In this instance the entrry has been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 19 November 2012
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.