Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical site
Freynestown Upper, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Freynestown Upper
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WI021-071----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Price (1949, 156) refers to a local tradition of a monastery in a field called ‘Bullock Park’ in Freynestown Upper townland. He states (1959, 165-6) that this may be the site of ‘the Anglo Norman church’ of Freynestown. He also describes (ibid.) a possible stoup with a shallow circular basin (diam. 0.22m; D 0.05m). This has not been located.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 11 December 2012
References
Price, L. 1949 The place-names of Co. Wicklow. III - The barony of Talbotstown Upper. The Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (107-84).
Price, L. 1959 Rock-basins or “bullauns”, at Glendalough and elsewhere. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 89, 161-88.