What is recorded here

Grave Yd. Outlined marks the old Artaine chapel, recorded since 1275 as one of three chapels belonging to Finglas. The rectangular church still stands raised inside a small public park, with memorials from 1711 to 1827 fixed to its exterior. Sixteenth-century floor tiles buried beneath suggest that people once walked there, prayed there and were remembered there long before the yard took its present shape.

In 1275 the Crede Mihi noted that the chapel (DU014-073001-) at Artaine was one of three attached to the Church of Finglas (Walsh 1888, 195). Archbishop Alen's Reportorium viride of 1532 also refers to a chapel dedicated to St Nicholas (ibid. , 201). The Civil survey (1654-6) mentions the chapel of Artaine (Simington 1945, 177). Today the remains comprise a rectangular church on a raised site in a small public park. Fragments of 16th century floor tiles were found in the interior (McMahon 1998, 157, 155-162). Memorials which, date from 1711-1827, have been attached to the exterior of the church. Church depicted standing in centre of square-shaped graveyard (dims. 38m NE-SW x 34m E-W) on 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout

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