Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Preban, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Preban
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.83674, -6.39727
- SMR number
- WI039-011001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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 level to gently SW-facing terrain. Some low stony banks which may indicate a rectangular structure (dims. c. 12m x 4m) are all that remain of the church. There is a possible entrance at the W end and slight indications of a separate chancel at the NE. Other banks at the NE indicate an attached structure. The church is located at NW side of the graveyard which is a modern five-sided enclosure (dims. c. 60m E-W; c. 50m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.1m) with external drystone facing except at the S where there is a modern mortared wall. The entrance is at the SE in this wall. The graveyard contains late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century headstones. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 115m) marked around the church and graveyard on the 1838 OS 6-inch map is now delimited by a farm lane at the W and N, but is not otherwise visible at ground level.
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.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 11 October 2012
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.