
What is recorded here
Private burial ground, opened 1847, including: Part subterranean single-bay single-storey barrel-roofed single-cell vault on a rectangular plan. Sod-covered segmental barrel roof. Roughcast wall between roughcast splayed abutment walls with cut-granite coping. Pair of trefoil-headed panels centred on square-headed door opening with cast-iron door. Set in unkempt grounds with piers to perimeter supporting flat iron gate.
A vault erected (1847) by Edward Barrington JP (1796-1877) of Fassaroe House, County Wicklow, representing an integral component of the built heritage of south County Dublin. NOTE: In addition to eight of his nineteen children produced by two marriages, including identically-named sons Richard Manliffe Barrington (1829-47) and Richard Manliffe Barrington (1849-1915), the vault contains the reinterred remains of his father John Barrington (1764-1824); brother John Barrington (1800-36); and sister Selina Barrington (1805-36), all of whom died of Typhus and were originally buried in nearby Tully Graveyard [SMR DU026-023002-].
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