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Church

Maudlintown (Forth By.), County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Maudlintown, County Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Maudlintown (Forth By.)
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
St. Mary Magdalenes Church (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Ch. (in Rns.)
Coordinates
52.32753, -6.45053
SMR number
WX037-042001-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1811 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

The parish church of Maudlintown is situated on a low-lying landscape within a rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 50-55m E-W; c. 35m N-S) defined by masonry walls. It was attached to the Leper Hospital (WX037-041----) and was granted to the Knights Hospitaller of St John at Kilmainham, Co. Dublin in the 15th century. Portion of the W gable (L 7m; max. H 2.5m) with a break at the centre survives with part of the adjacent S wall. The lower end of a medieval graveslab (Wth 0.41-0.51m; T 0.13m; H 0.67m) with a raised fleur-de-lis terminal is used as a grave-marker at the N edge of the church. The site of St Mary Magdalene's Well (WX037-040----), at which patterns were celebrated on the 22nd of July until c. 1790 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 376) is c. 150m to the NE. Archaeological testing (13E0258) by Mary Henry immediately S of the graveyard produced no related material (excavations.ie 2013:173).

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: 14 December, 2012
Amended: 24 November 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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