Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Templecarrig Upper, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Templecarrig Upper
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WI008-039----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The Ordnance Survey Letters (1838-40) record that 'there is an ancient rath on the lands of Upper Templecarrig (WI008-038----), and a thorn bush, which they call the Cross Bush (from a cross having stood at the place formerly), into which people attending funerals threw each a stone when passing by with a corpse. It is on the old road leading from Templecarrig to Kilmacannoge, near Patt Kellys house'. (O'Flanagan 1928, 39).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 05 February 2013
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1928 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Wicklow collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Bray.