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Church

Threemilewater, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Threemilewater, County Wicklow, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Threemilewater
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Church (in Ruins), G. Yd.
Coordinates
52.92467, -6.04092
SMR number
WI031-020001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on an E-facing slope overlooking a stream. A nave (int. dims. 13.3m x 6.6m) and chancel (int. dims. c. 6.6m x 4.8m) church of uncoursed rubble (T 0.8m) surviving to a H of 0.8-1m with a possible doorway at the W end of the S wall. The site is associated with St Baothin and is called Inishboheen; it is probably the site of an Early Christian church. Records suggest that the chancel was added to the earlier nave in the late 1620s (Ronan 1928, 147-8); there is a slight suggestion of the continuation of the nave walls to the E beyond the junction with the chancel. To the W of the church is a rectangular stone block (present H 0.51m; Wth 0.31m; T 0.21m). The only uncut face has the inscription 'RCAC 1690' while the letter 'B' is deeply inscribed on the top. The church is in the NE corner of a subtriangular graveyard (dims. 75m N-S x 50m at N tapering to the S) defined by a modern stone wall. There are several 18th and 19th-century headstones at this site. The church may be the only remains of the medieval borough of Ennisboyne (WI031-020----).

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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