Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Middletown (ballaghkeen By., Ardamine Ed), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Middletown (ballaghkeen By., Ardamine Ed)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ardamine Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ardamine Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 52.63227, -6.23086
- SMR number
- WX012-009001-
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 the sand-dunes with the sea-shore c. 100m to the E. The site of the parish church of Ardamine (WX012-009003-) is within the rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 40m N-S; c. 40m E-W) marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map that is now N of the St. John's C. of I. church. Thare are no visible remains of an ancient church at ground level within the graveyard defined by a masonry wall. The plain Latin cross (WX012-009002-) is c. 120m to the S, within a new graveyard, and the motte and bailey (WX012-010----) is c. 140m to the S.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 13 April, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.