Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Historic town
Dunlavin Upper,dunlavin Lower, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunlavin Upper,dunlavin Lower
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dunlavin
- Coordinates
- 53.05822, -6.70117
- SMR number
- WI015-016----
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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
Part of the ancient see lands of Glendalough, Dunlavin appears to have been an episcopal manor with a borough attached to it. While mentioned in an Inquisition of 1326 it seems to have fallen into decay soon afterwards. A mill is referred to in the fourteenth century (MacNeill 1950, 164-6, 190) and the 17th-century parish church (WI015-016001-) was demolished before 1838. The present town is an 18th-century estate town. (Bradley and King 1989, 38-43)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.