Ecclesiastical enclosure

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the NE edge of a ridge on level ground with a short steep drop to the N and E. According to Price (1946, 90-91) this is an early ecclesiastical church and enclosure (WI043-009003-). A ruined early nineteenth-century structure with no surviving evidence of an earlier church. A cylindrical block of granite mentioned by Price (1946, 90) lies just outside the SW corner of the church and there are some other miscellaneous architectural fragments. The graveyard contains a large number of mid-eighteenth-century headstones. The church and graveyard lie just S of the centre of a large oval enclosure (dims. 100m N-S; c. 65m E-W) defined at the E and W by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; H 2m) with drystone facing. No indication of a fosse. There may have been an entrance at the NW where the enclosure is approached by a raised path between two ditches.

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: 10 October 2012