Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Architectural fragment
Churchland, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchland
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.79278, -6.45814
- SMR number
- WI043-009004-
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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 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 (WI043-009001-) and enclosure (WI043-009003-). An architectural fragment, described as a lozenge-shaped trough (dims. c. 0.4m x 0.2m; D 0.2m), may be a stoup (D of depression c. 0.08m). 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, along with four granite fleur-de-lys which appear to have surmounted the four corner spires of the church. 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 (WI043-009003-).
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
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.