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Kilmacnevan monastic site placed on the Register of Historic Monuments in 1989. Extract from Iris Oifigiúil 25th April 1989. Situated on fairly well drained grassland with good views of the surrounding countryside. Kilmacnevan church (WM011-115---) graveyard (WM011-115001-) and high cross (WM011-115003-) immediately to NNE. The wall footings of a possible rectangular house (approx. diam. 5m N-S; 4m E-W) with an entrance at N (Wth 2m) are visible in the SW quadrant of Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure (WM011-115002-). The Schools' Collection of 1937-9 recorded the following folklore regarding these earthworks which stated that 'there was a town where the graveyard lies now. There was a monastery in the town and in one corner of the graveyard there are the ruins of the monastery' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, 281).
See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 28 August 2017
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