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Bahana (Whaley), County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Bahana (Whaley), 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
Bahana (Whaley)
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Abbey (in Ruins), Grave Yard
Coordinates
52.89130, -6.25786
SMR number
WI035-014001-

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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 in gently undulating terrain. Poorly preserved foundations of 'Whaley Abbey' (dims. c. 10.4m E-W; c. 7.7m N-S), a rectangular structure of uncoursed rubble. Reputed to be the site of the Abbey of Ballkine (Ronan 1927, 109). It is in the centre of a rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 50m E-W; c. 35m N-S) defined by a modern wall. Within the church is an early medieval graveslab (L 1.56m) with a full-length ringed openwork cross on the upper face. A second slab from the site with a ringed interlace cross and an inscription 'OROIT DO FACHTAIN' is now in the NMI (Braybrook 1879-81, 407). Several mid-18th and early 19th-century headstones also occur within the church. (Price 1946, 64).

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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