Graveyard in Ballymadrough, County Dublin

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What is recorded here

Located immediately N of Malahide estuary. The site comprises a raised oval area, aligned E-W (L 27m, Wth 22m, H 1.4m-1.8m) enclosed by a modern wall which appears to have replaced an earlier earthen enclosure. A rectangular sunken feature aligned E-W, towards W end of graveyard is probably the remains of the church (L 8.0m, Wth 6.9m). The graveyard is no longer used for burials. (Healy 1975, 25). The gravyard is very overgrown with only a single gravestone visible. According to Peadar Bates, local historian, the gravestone is that of William Massey 1777, MP for Swords.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DU012-013002

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