Church

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on level ground overlooking a sharp drop to the SW. Poorly preserved church of which only the E gable (L 1.5m; H 1.8m; T 0.85m) survives. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1928, 84-5) describe the church as measuring 16.5m long by 5.8m wide, (average H 1m) with an internal partition 5.5m from the E end, and part of a window of cut stone surviving at the E end of the S wall. The church is traditionally associated with St Ernin (Ronan 1928, 139-40), and lies towards the N end of an oval graveyard (dims. 50m NE-SW; 40m NW-SE) defined by an early 19th-century wall possibly built on the perimeter of an earlier enclosure. Some 18th-century headstones have been re-erected along the wall. There is a granite font (diam. 0.8m; H 0.4m) beside the E gable of church.

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

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.

Ronan, Rev. M.V. 1928 The ancient churches of the deanery of Wicklow. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 58, 132-55.