Graveyard in Monkstown Housefarm — Report the wrong picture

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O2328 :: Saint Mochanna's Church and graveyard, Carrickbrennan, opposite Monkstown Castle, near to Monkstown, Dublin, Ireland by Joan and Max Wellman · Photo: Joan and Max Wellman · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

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The trapezoidal walled graveyard at Monkstown Housefarm has marked death since the sixth century, when St. Mochonna and the Hompatrick monastery first claimed the soil. centuries later, the western gable of the medieval church was absorbed into a seventeenth-century charnel-house, forcing the dead to share one roof across eras. Eighteenth and nineteenth-century memorials still crowd the flat ground beside Carrickbrennan Road, testifying that Monkstown has never stopped burying its people or remembering them.

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). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 22 May 2018

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