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Situated on the NE edge of a low ridge overlooking the Brittas river (to the E). This graveyard (WI001-022003-) is possibly the site of an Anglo-Norman parish church (WI001-022002-; Price 1953, 274). There is no visible trace of this church at ground level. Part of an enclosure (WI001-022001-) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; H 1.8m), predating the eighteenth-century graveyard wall, survives on the E side. According to local tradition this is the original location of a font which is currently located outside St Brigid's Church c. 200m to the W (see WI001-046----) . In the W sector of the graveyard is an early graveslab (WI001-022005-) and a cross-slab (WI001-022006-) from this graveyard is in the National Museum of Ireland (Reg. No. 1970:189).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997), no. 837. In this instance the entrry has been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 19 November 2012
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