Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Bahana (whaley), County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bahana (whaley)
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.89126, -6.25786
- SMR number
- WI035-014002-
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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 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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.