Graveyard in Kilmacoo, County Wicklow

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What is recorded here

Situated at the foot of a marked E-facing slope. Marked 'Site of Church, Graveyard' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. All that survives of the church is a granite sill (possibly from a window) and part of a bevelled window arch. There are no early features visible in the graveyard (dims. c. 45m x 25m) apart from a bullaun (dims. 0.4m x 0.35m x 0.35m), and there is no trace of the graveslab mentioned in the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1928, 130). The landowner says there are several more bullauns on this site but no others were located. The site is in very poor condition and is visible as a roughly rectangular area 0.5m higher than the surrounding ground, strewn with field boulders and tree stumps.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI035-020002

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