Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
St. John'S, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- St. John'S
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.48353, -6.57200
- SMR number
- WX026-005001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the crest of a steep E-facing slope of the Slaney valley with the N-S river c. 240m to the E. This is probably the site of the parish church of St John's within a rectangular and neglected graveyard (dims. c. 90m N-S; 15-30m E-W) defined by masonry walls. John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933. vol. 2, 255) records the foundations of church (L c. 9m; Wth c. 7m) known as Carrig church which have since disappeared.
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: 12 July 2012
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1933 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of County Wexford, collected during progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Typescript in 2 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - formal gardenunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.