What is recorded here

Donabate Rock and Chapel (site of) in Portrane, County Dublin: a forgotten chapel above the cliff, recorded only through stones turned up when ploughing and a possible platform detected seventy metres north during waste-water survey work. The sea may have taken the building, the road may have passed it, or the town may have simply stopped remembering the exact spot. What remains is a gap shaped like a chapel: strong enough to mark on a map, thin enough to argue about.

This 'chapel site' is located in a field of pasture above the cliff edge at Portraine (Healy 1975, 25). When ploughed large stones visible. Geophysical survey (Licence no. 08R0029) undertaken ahead of the Donabate-Rogerstown Waste Water Treatment Scheme identified a possible platform c70m north of present site identified as possible site of chapel. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 16 January 2015

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