Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Dunbur Head, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunbur Head
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- R. C. Chapel (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.97219, -6.00873
- SMR number
- WI025-017001-
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
Situated in a deep natural gully (E-W) across a headland on the sea coast. A nave and chancel church (dims. 10.2m x 4.4m) of unmortared horizontal slabs with a door at the W end of the N wall. Part of the E wall has collapsed outwards. Probably a penal chapel. Some adjacent natural caves may have been used as souterrains (WI025-015----) and there is a holy well 150m to the W (WI025-016----).
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
- Caveunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Rock shelterunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.