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Situated in a flat urban site to the NE of the junction of Carrickbrennan Road and Mounttown Road Upper. A trapezoidal walled graveyard (N-S 60.2m, E-W 68.8m) accessed through a pointed arched gateway off the Carrrickbrennan Road N of Monkstown Castlefarm. Within the site are 18th and 19th century memorials. In the interior of the graveyard the W gable of the medieval church (DU023-013001-) is incorporated into a 17th century charnel-house (DU023-013003-; Turner 1983, 28-29). The site occupies the location of an earlier site associated with the 6th century St. Mochonna, who was attached to the early monastery of Hompatrick, Skerries (Ball 1902, 41).
Situated in a flat urban site to the NE of the junction of Carrickbrennan Road and Mounttown Road Upper. A trapezoidal walled graveyard (N-S 60.2m, E-W 68.8m) accessed through a pointed arched gateway off the Carrrickbrennan Road N of Monkstown Castlefarm. Within the site are 18th and 19th century memorials. In the interior of the graveyard the W gable of the medieval church (DU023-013001-) is incorporated into a…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DU023-013002
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