Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Kilmurry South (arklow By.), County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmurry South (arklow By.)
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.90103, -6.11402
- SMR number
- WI036-004001-
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 on a gentle W-facing slope on the edge of a small stream. This site is now occupied by a modern farmyard complex and there is no local memory of any features. Marked as 'Grave Yard, (Site of) Church' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. A holy well (Lady Well) (WI036-003----) lies 200m to the N in Kilmurry North. (O'Flanagan 1928, 128, 132)
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: 13 September 2013
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1928 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Wicklow collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.