Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Ballymaghroe (newcastle By.), County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymaghroe (newcastle By.)
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01470, -6.12920
- SMR number
- WI025-001005-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Associated with a church (WI025-001002-). According to the precis of a reference (Price 1959, 175) on file, '… part of the rim (of a font) has been chipped away; there are 2 crosses in relief placed opposite on another on the outside'. The font is not mentioned in the field note on the church.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 20 October 2012
References
Price, L. 1959 Rock-basins or “bullauns”, at Glendalough and elsewhere. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 89, 161-88.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.