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Graveyard

Bahana (Whaley), County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, 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
Coordinates
52.89126, -6.25786
SMR number
WI035-014002-

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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 gentle undulating terrain, a rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 50m E-W; c. 35m N-S) defined by a modern wall with the poorly preserved foundations of 'Whaley Abbey' (WI035-014001-) in the centre. Within the church is an early medieval graveslab (WI035-014003-) (L 1.56m) with a full-length ringed openwork cross on the upper face. A second slab from the site (WI035-014004-) 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 graveyard. (Price 1946, 64).

Compiled by: Claire Breen

Date of upload: 21 August 2013

References

Price, L. 1946 The place-names of Co. Wicklow. II - The barony of Ballinacor South. The Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (55-106).

Braybrook, E.W. 1879-81 Proceedings. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Antiquaries (London) 8, 2nd Series, 407.

Nearby in the register

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

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