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Graveyard

Kildavin Lower, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Kildavin Lower, 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
Kildavin Lower
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yd.
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yd.
Coordinates
52.29108, -6.52113
SMR number
WX042-015002-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: 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

Located in the valley of a small NW-SE stream on the S bank. The parish church of Kildavin (WX042-015001-) is within an overgrown subcircular graveyard (dims 41m E-W; 33m N-S) defined by a masonry wall. The font (WX042-015003-) is within the nave of the church.
Archaeological testing (07E0821) c. 45m to the S produced no related material (Dehaene 2010).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 29 May, 2013
Amended: 21 January, 2014

References

Dehaene, G. 2010 Murntown Lower. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 459, No. 1971. Dublin. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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