Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Dunlavin Upper, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunlavin Upper
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05843, -6.70053
- SMR number
- WI015-016003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
The church was demolished before 1838 and replaced by the present Church of Ireland parish church. Bradley and King (1989, 39-40) record that 'the graveyard has been turned into a public park with the gravestones arranged around the walls.' Three seventeenth century graveslabs survive. This slab was recorded by Bradley and King (1989, 40) as: 'Thin green limestone slab with an incised inscription: ANN/ WILLKINS/ 1694.' (Dims: H. 0.94m;, Wth 0.59m; T 0.04). See also WI015-016004- and WI015-016005-.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 19 December 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.