Abbey Road, Monkstown

Area

247 m²

Buildings

3 buildings touch it, 276 m² on the ground

Zoning

M3 Objective NC (COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028) The objective
R2 Objective A (COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028) The objective

Townland

Kill Of The Grange

Planning applications on this parcel

• 30 Nov 2018Grant permission

  Permission for demolition of single storey annex at the rear of the existing

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D18A/1126

• 19 Apr 2016Grant permission

  Permission is sought for first floor extension to side of existing dwelling and

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D16B/0158

• 22 May 2015Grant permission

  Permission for: 1. The demolition of the existing factory and re-location of

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D15A/0347

• 1 Sept 2014Refuse ext. of duration of permission

  Demolition of existing factory and the construction of 40 residential units and

  Extension of duration of permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D08A/1165/E

• 16 Dec 2011Grant permission

  demolition of existng shed (14 sq.m)

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D11B/0401

• 14 Feb 2008Refuse permission

  Demolition of existing factory and associated structures and the construction of

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D08A/0174

• 20 Dec 2007Declare invalid (site notice)

  Demolition of existing factory and associated structures and the construction o

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D07A/1749

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Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 14 recorded monuments.

• DU023-015 Ecclesiastical site
  Description

  Kill of the Grange (Kill of the Grange/Chill na Gráinsí/Church of the Grange or Monastic Farm) was the early Christian monastery of Clonkeen (Cluain Caoin/pleasant meadow or pasture) founded by St Fintan in the 6th century. According to Monasticon Hibernicum, Clonkeen; 'is now called the Kill-of-the-Grange, which was dedicated to St. Fintan, of Drumhing. The nave and chancel are in ruins; in the cemetery, north of the church, stands a broken granite cross of ancient workmanship. The possessions of Christ Church in this place are between 500 and 600 acres. It is now called the Dean's Grange. In 1796 these lands were valued at £869 5s. 10d.' (Archdall 1786, 332). In 1178/9 a Charter of St Laurence listed the possessions of Christ Church Catherdal also known as Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in the See of Dublin which included, 'Cluaincoin [Kill of-the-Grange]' (Donnelly 1889, 37). Around the year 1200 AD the archbishop of Dublin confirmed the grants made by William Marsicall, Earl of Pembroke, Isabella his wide and Raymond le Gross to this church, and King John confirmed all their possessions which included; 'Clonchen [Clonkeen], the donation of Ruad, the son of Donal King of Leinster (ibid.). In the 'Liber Niger' of Archbishop Alan, the church in Kill of the Grange was recorded as being dedicated to St. Fintan. In 1896 the ecclesiastical site was described as consisting of; ‘a primitive church, two stone crosses, a remarkable well, and a lettered bullán rock or stone, perhaps the most curious remain of its mysterious class to be found in Ireland’ (Anon. 1896, 403). The nearby holy well and its possible association with St Mogue was described in 1896 as follows; ‘This remarkable fount, which may be found at a short distance from the church, just a little within the gate entrance to a lawn appertaining to the "Abbey" (a picturesque and venerable residence of the Espinasse family dating from the sixteenth century), was, within my own memory, styled by some ancient people of the neighbourhood the "British Well." How it acquired this singular title must, I fear, remain a subject for conjecture. Some forty years ago I was informed on the spot that a parcel of land in the immediate neighbourhood was called by the old people "Mimoge," or " Moymoge," i.e. the Plain of Mogue, St. Mogue, Madhog, Moog, or Aedan was one of the most famous of Erin's early saints. He was a great traveller and church-founder in Britain, as well as in many parts of this country. Not a few of his Irish ecclesiastical establishments have been identified, but the exact position of others it seems now impossible to trace. It appears not unlikely that on one of his visits to Erin he was accompanied from Wales by a number of British ecclesiastics with whom he may have sojourned, for a time at least, at Clonkene, now, as we have seen, called Kill-o'-the-Grange. By the interest of Brandubh, King of Leinster, who is said to have been his half-brother, St. Aedan, or Mogue, was consecrated to the primacy of the Lagenians, and his see fixed at Ferns in the county of Wexford. There, on the 31st of January, A.D. 624, he died full of years and honours’ (ibid. 406-7). The bullaun stone was described in 1896 as; ‘Just within the gate of the Espinasse lawn is a granite mass, 9 feet in length by 6 in breadth, rising slightly above the ground. This may be either a huge boulder, or portion of the "living rock." Upon its somewhat sloping surface have been artificially sunk two basin-like hollows of a class usually styled, by Irish-speaking people, Bullán, i.e., in English, Little Pools. The bulláns at the Kill are slightly unequal in size, one measuring 14, the other 13, inches in diameter; they are 14 inches in depth, and in section present the figure of an acutely-pointed inverted cone. Close beneath the smaller and lower example is an inscription, now much worn by elemental action, consisting of three letters. These characters, DOM, are, as will be acknowledged by experts in such matters, perhaps as old as any lapidary inscription of Christian times found in Ireland. They doubtless stand for DOMINI, DOMINO, or, possibly, for the words DEO OPTIMO MAXIMO’ (ibid. 407-8). The present church and graveyard stands in the parish of Kill, barony of Rathdown and occupies a portion of the early Christian monastery of Clonkeen which was originally enclosed by a monastic enclosure (DU023-015013-) which was discovered by Paul Duffy during excavations in 2018. Situated on a low rise, in a green area now used as St. Fintan's Park housing estate. The upstanding church remains consists of a pre-Norman single cell church (National Monument No. 207) which was extended by to E by the addition of a late medieval chancel which now stands within a graveyard (DU023-015002-) enclosed by a post-1700 stone wall (Wakeman 1891, 702; Ball 1902, 251-2, Turner 1983, 40-41). Within the graveyard are the bases of two early medieval crosses (DU023-015004/008-) with a bullaun stone (DU023-015007-) outside the graveyard approx. 10m to the W of the SW corner of the graveyard wall. A holy well (DU023-015003-) lies 37m to the NW of the church. A medieval house (DU023-015010-) known locally as 'Kill Abbey' stands 50m to the W of the graveyard boundary wall. Church remains described by Harbison (1970, 78) as; 'A small church with antae and a (partly reconstructed) flat-headed doorway to which a chancel was added. The original church is Early Christian in date, but the chancel was added possibly as late as the 16th century. The round-headed doorway in the south wall is later than the original church. Inside the church is a cross-base with small cross which was removed there recently from the housing-estate 100 yards south-west of the church. In the graveyard are one cross-inscribed slab, and the base and fragments of a cross recently broken by vandals'. A granite cross base (DU023-015008-) within the nave of the church contains a rectangular mortice (L 0.31m, Wth 0.25m, D. 0.12m). Within the graveyard W of the church is a granite slab inscribed with a Greek cross. It tapers from top to bottom (L 0.8m, Wth 0.42m). Immediately SW of the graveyard is a granite bullaun stone (DU023-015007-) with a circular-shaped hollow (diam. 0.4m, D 0.28m). Two crosses (DU023-015004-) from the former laneway into the graveyard are now in the OPW depot at Trim, county Meath. A holy well (DU023-015003-) formerly lay a short distance from the church and graveyard. This was filled in the mid 1980's leaving no visible surface trace (Healy 1975, 1-19). Crawford (1913) described a triangular cross-inscribed stone (DU023-015006-) from the graveyard at Kill of the Grange (DU023-015002-) which could not be located (Ó hÉailidhe 1959, 165; Healy 1975, 1-19). The following report describes the results of an archaeological excavation (Ministerial Consent C00845, Reg. No. E004940) at St. Fintan’s Park, Kill of the Grange, Dublin within the construction corridor for a drainage pipeline which traversed the zone of notification for Kill of the Grange Church (National Monument No. 207, DU023-015001), well and bullaun stone (National Monument 587, DU023-015003) and graveyard (DU023-015002). The drainage works, associated with construction of a residential development to the north, were carried out between 13th December 2017 and 26th January 2018. The southeast limit of the pipeline corridor (c. 45m length) passed within 6m of the current graveyard wall traversing the zone of notification for the church, which is a National Monument (No. 207). The current excavation was undertaken on behalf of Elliot Group in response to a reported threat to the National Monument received by the Monument Protection Division of the National Monuments Service (NMS) on 15th December 2017. 'Archaeological monitoring of groundworks proceeded from 5th January 2018 and archaeological features were immediately identified within a section of the pipeline corridor adjacent to the graveyard wall.

• DU023-015001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a low rise, in a green area, NE of Kill Abbey road. National Monument No. 207. Early Christian church site of Clonkeen (Kill of the Grange) founded by St Fintan in the 6th century. The regal visitation of 1615 recorded that of the church of Clonkene, alias Grange (Kill of the Grange), and that of Dalkey (DU023-023002-), had their rectories appertained to the church of the Holy Trinity (Christ Church DU018-020270-) and that Owen Ellis was curate of both; the churches were in repair, but their chancels were in ruins. Originally built as a single-cell rectangular-shaped pre-Norman church (int. dims L 7.7m x Wth 5m, wall T 0.8m) with antae at both gable end, a chancel was added onto the E end of the single-cell church converting it into a medieval nave and chancel parish church with double bellcote added to the apex of the W gable during this period. This multi-period church stands in the centre of a roughly rectangular shaped graveyard (DU023-015002-) enclosed by a post-1700 stone wall (Wakeman 1891, 702; Ball 1902, 251-2, Turner 1983, 40-41). The church survives to gable height with a double bellcote over the W gable. Built of coursed granite blocks, which tend to be larger in the later addition. The side walls of the nave extend beyond the face of the gables forming antae. The church is entered through a lintelled doorway which has been reconstructed. There is a later entrance through a round arched doorway inserted into the W end of the S wall. The interior is lit by a narrow rectangular ope in the W gable and slit opes on the side walls. There are bar holes present on the jambs. A chancel with a round chancel arch was added to the E gable. There is moulding at the base of the S side. Interior is lit by a round arched ope with hollow-chamfered jambs containing bar holes and a stepped embrasure (int. dims. L 6.25m, x Wth 5.25m, wall T 0.55m). A fragment of a possible cross-slab (DU023-015012-) has been reused as a corner-stone to the top of the N angle of the antae on the SW angle of the church. The church was visited in 1896 when it was described as follows; 'In plan it is simply an oblong quadrangle, measuring, externally, 82 feet 9 inches [25.2m] in length, by 21 feet 10 inches [6.6m] in breadth. The terminations of the side walls, as in many other early Irish churches, extend about 11 inches [0.28m] beyond the face of the gables, forming plain, well-defined pilasters. The walls, which are 2 feet 11 inches [0.89m] in thickness at base, are composed of roughly-hammered stones of medium size, laid in somewhat irregular courses. The original doorway, which occupies a position in the west gable, measures, at present, but 4 feet 8 inches [1.42m] in height, but, no doubt, its lower portion is buried for some distance in the church-yard soil. The breadth at top is 2 feet 6 inches [0.76m]; the width at present at base 8 feet 2 inches [2.5m]. Unfortunately, the original lintel is gone, its place being filled by a rudely-fashioned stone. As was usual with very many of our old Irish churches, a time arrived when the original square-headed western entrance just described became out of fashion. It was succeeded by a pointed doorway broken through the south side wall at a little distance from the western gable. This entrance measures at present from ground to spring of the arch 2 feet 9 inches [0.83m]; its width is 8 feet 8 inches [2.64m]. A window, about 8 feet [2.4m] in height, with semicircular top cut out of a single stone should be observed as an original feature; it occurs near the eastern end of the building in the southern wall. The architectural history of this most instructive church is curiously illustrated by the presence of a chancel, which is evidently an addition, made, as we may presume, at a time when the original structure was already old and out of fashion. As this chancel contains an eastern window characteristic of twelfth, or, at latest, of thirteenth-century work, we are forced to attribute to the nave, at least a very considerable degree of antiquity. It will be observed at once that the chancel side walls do not bond into the masonry of the original church. When the extension was made it became necessary to establish a choir arch, a feat easily accomplished by hewing a passage through what had been the eastern gable, which gap was then lined with field stones, so as to form a semicircular arch of the rudest description' (Wakeman 1896, 404-05). Church recently described by Ó Carragáin (2010) as follows; 'Internal dimensions: 4.98 X 7.74m = 38.55 m sq. This church with antae has been extensively rebuilt and none of its original apertures survives, except possibly for one or two of the jamb stones of its doorway. The lintels of early round-headed windows may be reused in late windows at the east ends of the side walls'. The church is located within a complex which includes a graveyard (DU023-015002-), a holly well (DU023-015003-) a bullaun stone (DU023-015007-), two graveslabs (DU023-015005-, DU023-015006-), a stone font (DU023-015009), the base of a stone cross (DU023-015008-), and two crosses (DU023-015004) from the former laneway into the graveyard which are now in the care of the OPW in Trim, county Meath. Wakeman, W.F. 1896 Proceedings - Descriptive Sketch of Places Visited. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 26, 403-18. See attached photographs DU023-015001-_01 courtesy of IanfHunter at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kill_of_the_Grange_Church.JPG DU023-015001-_02_05 courtesy of G. Hill taken 2012 accessible at http://irelandinruins.blogspot.com/2012/09/old-st-fintans-church-co-dublin.html DU023-015001-_08 - photograph of church ruins and graveyard wall taken c. 1927, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, Patrick Healy Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/2379 DU023-015001-_09 - photograph of church ruins, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, Patrick Healy Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/2229 DU023-015001-_10 - photograph of E gable of chancel, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, Patrick Healy Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/1933 Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 11 January 2023

• DU023-015002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a low rise, in a green area, NE of Kill Abbey road. A graveyard, irregular to sub-rectangular in shape (N-S 41.8m, E-W 78m). Within the walled graveyard a pre-Norman church with a late medieval chancel (DU023-015001-) were noted (Wakeman 1891, 702; Ball 1902, 251-2, Turner 1983, 40-41). The site is located within a complex which includes a pre-Norman church with a late medieval chancel (DU023-015001-), a holy well (DU023-015003-) a bullaun stone (DU023-015007-), two cross-slabs (DU023-015005-, DU023-015006-), a stone font (DU023-015009-), the base of a stone cross (DU023-015008-), and two crosses (DU023-015004) from the former laneway into the graveyard which are now in the care of the OPW in Trim, county Meath. The following report details the osteological analysis of human remains excavated at St. Fintan’s Park, Kill of the Grange, Co. Dublin in January and February 2018. The remains of at least two individuals were retrieved during a rescue excavation carried out by Paul Duffy of IAC Ltd (Ministerial Consent C000845, Registration No. E004940) to facilitate ground works associated with the laying of a drainage pipe. The excavation area was situated to the north of the boundary wall surrounding Kill of the Grange Church and Graveyard (National Monument 207, DU023-015) in St. Fintan’s Park. Two sections of parallel northwest-southeast running ditches were excavated in the narrow excavation area, one which contained medieval pottery and the other, a burial and deposits of animal bone. The burial activity has been dated to the early medieval period – 5th to 7th centuries AD. Duffy, P. 2019 Final Excavation Report (Licence No. E004940) at Saint Fintan’s Park, Kill of the Grange, Co. Dublin, on behalf of Elliot Group for Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council. Ministerial Consent C00845. Irish Archaeology Consultancy Ltd. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised by: Caimin O'Brien date of revised upload: 10 July 2023

• DU023-015003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated on a low rise, in a green area, NE of Kill Abbey road. A holy well formerly lay a short distance from the church (DU023-015001-) and graveyard (DU023-015002-). Annotated 'Well' on the OSi 25-inch map. Described in 1896 as a, 'remarkable fount, which may be found at a short distance from the church, just a little within the gate entrance to a lawn appertaining to the “Abbey" (a picturesque and venerable residence of the Espinasse family dating from the sixteenth century), was, within my own memory, styled by some ancient people of the neighbourhood the “British Well.” How it acquired this singular title must, I fear, remain a subject for conjecture. Some forty years ago I was informed on the spot that a parcel of land in the immediate neighbourhood was called by the old people “Mimoge," or "Moymoge," i.e. the Plain of Mogue. St. Mogue , Mædhog, Mæog , or Aedan was one of the most famous of Erin's early saints. This 'British Well' now dry, is approached from the sward by several descending steps formed of blocks of stone. It is encompassed by a strongly constructed building, oval, or rudely circular in plan, and was probably originally covered by a roofing of flags, or boarding, of which no trace remains' (Wakeman 1896, 406-7). This was filled in the mid 1980's leaving no visible surface trace (Healy 1975, 1-19). The site is located within a complex which includes a pre-Norman church with a late medieval chancel (DU023-015001-), a graveyard (DU023-015002-), a bullaun stone (DU023-015007-), two graveslabs (DU023-015005-, DU023-015006-), a stone font (DU023-015009-), the base of a stone cross (DU023-015008-), and two crosses (DU023-015004) from the former laneway into the graveyard which are now in the care of the OPW in Trim, county Meath. Wakeman, W.F. 1896 Proceedings - Descriptive Sketch of Places Visited. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 26, 403-18. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 11 January 2023

• DU023-015004 Cross
  Description

  Situated on a low rise, in a green area, NE of Kill Abbey road. Two crosses, one from from the former laneway leading into the graveyard are now held in the OPW depot at Trim, County Meath. The broken ringed cross formed part of the shaft and base of the high cross visible to the N of the church (DU023-015001-) in the graveyard (DU023-015002-) at Kill of the Grange was moved to the OPW depot at Trim, Co. Meath. The second cross (DU023-015008-) now located in the OPW Depot at Trim has the appearance of a Tau cross, the smaller cross head stood in a cross base 100m to the SSW of the church which was moved into the nave of the church by the OPW c. 1970. The two locations of two stone crosses are shown on the historic OSi maps, both of which are annotated 'Stone Cross' in Gothic Script. On the 1863 ed. OSi 25-inch map the first cross location is depicted c. 5m N of the centre of the medieval church (DU023-015001-), immediately N of a pathway running E-W across the N quadrant of the graveyard (DU023-015002-). The second location on the 25-inch map shows the 'Stone Cross' standing c. 100m to the SSW of the medieval church, on the N side of the entrance laneway running up to the graveyard entrance. The crosses were located within a complex which includes a pre-Norman church with a late medieval chancel (DU023-015001-), a graveyard (DU023-015002-), a holy well (DU023-015003-) a bullaun stone (DU023-015007-), two graveslabs (DU023-015005/006-), a stone font (DU023-015009-), the base of a stone cross (DU023-015008-). See attached photograph of possible Tau cross taken by Paddy Healy, courtesy of South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/1383 See attached photograph of ringed cross at Trim depot taken by Paddy Healy 27 November 1979, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/1984 See attached photograph of ringed cross in Kill of the Grange graveyard taken by Paddy Healy, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/2117 See attached photograph of ringed cross with Fógra sign in Kill of the Grange graveyard taken by Paddy Healy, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/1714 See attached photograph of cross with top missing, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, Patrick Healy Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/1648 DU023-015004-_06 photograph of cross at Trim, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, Patrick Healy Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/2631 DU023-015004-_07 photograph of cross at Trim, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, Patrick Healy Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/1592 Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 12 January 2023

• DU023-015005 Cross
  Description

  Situated on a low rise, in a green area, NE of Kill Abbey road, in Kill of the Grange graveyard (DU023-015002-). Granite cross-inscribed stone described by Ó hÉailidhe (1959, 207) as consisting of 'a flat circular portion six inches thick, one edge of which has been broken away. On the face of this is a slightly sunken Greek cross, and above the cross an open socket four-and-a-half inches [0.11m] wide and four inches [0.1m] deep. On the back of the circular portion is a rough bulbous lump nine-and-a-half inches [0.24m] long, ten-and-a-half inches [0.26m] wide and protruding five-and-a-half inches [0.14m]. This part seems to have been intended to be built in out of sight, and, presumably, in this position, and with the socket to the top, the stone could be used as a corbel. The cross can be compared with that cut on the underside of the lintel of Killiney Church [DU026-013001-]'. Cross fragment described in 2009 as follows; 'A cross is located within the graveyard (DU023-015002-) it consist of a flat circular granite disc (Diam. 0.41, T 0.15m). On the face of the disc is a shallow recessed Greek cross (Wth 0.23m) and above this is a sub-rectangular socket. On the back of the stone a possible stone head protrudes (Swords 2009, 110). The site is located within a complex which includes a pre-Norman church with a late medieval chancel (DU023-015001-), a graveyard (DU023-015002-), a holy well (DU023-015003-) a bullaun stone (DU023-015007-), a cross-inscribed stone (DU023-015006-), a stone font (DU023-015009-), the base of a stone cross (DU023-015008-), and two crosses (DU023-015004) from the former laneway into the graveyard which are now in the care of the OPW in Trim, county Meath. See attached drawing of cross-inscribed stone taken from Ó hÉailidhe 1959, 206. See attached photograph of cross taken by Paddy Healy 7 September 2009, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/2154 See attached photograph of possible cross head with sunken cross taken by Paddy Healy 17 March 1977, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/2637 Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 12 January 2023

• DU023-015007 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Situated on a low rise, in a green area, NE of Kill Abbey road. Immediately SW of the graveyard (DU023-015002-) at Kill of the Grange is a granite bullaun stone. It has a circular shaped hollow (diam. 0.4m x D 0.28m) with a second hollow now covered in soil and no longer visible. Bullaun Stone described in 1896 as follows; 'Just within the gate of the Espinasse lawn is a granite mass, 9 feet [2.7m] in length by 6 [1.8m] in breadth, rising slightly above the ground. This may be either a huge boulder, or portion of the “living rock.” Upon its somewhat sloping surface have been artificially sunk two basin-like hollows of a class usually styled, by Irish - speaking people, Bullán, i.e., in English, Little Pools. The bulláns at the Kill are slightly unequal in size, one measuring 14 [0.35m], the other 18 [0.45m], inches in diameter; they are 14 inches [0.35m] in depth, and in section present the figure of an acutely-pointed inverted cone. Close beneath the smaller and lower example is an inscription, now much worn by elemental action, consisting of three letters. These characters, DOM, are, as will be acknowledged by experts in such matters, perhaps as old as any lapidary inscription of Christian times found in Ireland. They doubtless stand for Domini, Domino, or, possibly, for the words Deo Optimo Maximo' (Wakeman 1896, 407-8). The site is located within a complex which includes a pre-Norman church with a late medieval chancel (DU023-015001-), a graveyard (DU023-015002-), a holy well (DU023-015003-), two graveslabs (DU023-015005-, DU023-015006-), a stone font (DU023-015009-), the base of a stone cross (DU023-015008-), and two crosses (DU023-015004) from the former laneway into the graveyard which are now in the care of the OPW in Trim, county Meath. See attached photograph of bullaun stone at Kill of the Grange showing the two hollows taken by Paddy Healy, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/1967 Wakeman, W.F. 1896 Proceedings - Descriptive Sketch of Places Visited. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 26, 403-18. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 12 January 2023

• DU023-015008 Cross (present location)
  Description

  Situated on a low rise, in a green area, NE of Kill Abbey road. A granite cross base within the nave of the church (DU023-015001-) in Kill of the Grange graveyard (DU023-015002-). The base has a rectangular mortice (L 0.31m x Wth 0.25m x D. 0.12m). This cross base which had a smaller cross inserted was originally located 100m to the SSW of the church as shown on the 25-inch OSi map. The cross-base was removed c. 1970 from this location and placed inside the nave of the church for safe keeping by the OPW and the head of the cross was removed to the OPW depot at Trim, Co. Meath. The site is located within a complex which includes a pre-Norman church with a late medieval chancel (DU023-015001-), a graveyard (DU023-015002-), a holy well (DU023-015003-), a bullaun stone (DU023-015007-), a cross-inscribed stone (DU023-015005-), a stone font (DU023-015009), and two crosses (DU023-015004) from the former laneway into the graveyard which are now in the care of the OPW in the Trim depot, county Meath. See attached photograph of cross base in the nave of the church at Kill of the Grange taken by Paddy Healy, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/3491 DU023-015008-_03 photograph of cross head and base c. 1927 in its original location 100m to the SSW of the medieval church at Kill of the Grange, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, Patrick Healy Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/1648 See attached sketch map of cross base with small cross head drawn 19/10/1970 Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 12 January 2023

• DU023-015009 Font
  Description

  Situated on a low rise, in a green area, NE of Kill Abbey road. A stone font which came originally from Kill of the Grange is now located inside the Church of Ireland at Deansgrange (DU023-016----) (Healy 1975, 1-19). The site is located within a complex which includes a pre-Norman church with a late medieval chancel (DU023-015001-), a graveyard (DU023-015002-), a holly well (DU023-015003-) a bullaun stone (DU023-015007-), a graveslab (DU023-015005-), the base of a stone cross (DU023-015008-), and two crosses (DU023-015004) from the former laneway into the graveyard which are now in the care of the OPW in Trim, county Meath. See attached photograph of font in the graveyard at Kill of the Grange taken by Paddy Healy, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/2174 DU023-015009-_02 photograph of font from Kill of the Grange taken by Paddy Healy, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/3186 Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 12 January 2023

• DU023-015010 House - 16th century
  Description

  In the Dublin RMP (1998) this record was listed as 'dwelling possible' and refers to the house annotated 'Kill Abbey' on the historic OSi maps to the W of Kill of the Grange church (DU023-015001-) and graveyard (DU023-015002-). The house was described in 1896 as; 'the “Abbey" a picturesque and venerable residence of the Espinasse family dating from the sixteenth century' (Wakeman 1896, 407). According to Ball (1902, 47, 50), 'the house called Kill Abbey, which, though it has lost its original characteristics, bears the date 1595 [DU023-015011-], and is surrounded by yew trees of extreme age. The house known as Kill Abbey was, doubtless, built in 1595, the date it bears, by George Ussher, a merchant of Dublin, to whom was leased, in 1592, by the Chapter of the Cathedral [Christchurch]'. The house was described in 1869 as; 'Within a few yards of the gate of the church-yard stands Kill Abbey, the residence of Richard Espinasse, Esq., J.P. one of the oldest houses perhaps in Ireland, for according to the date over the entrance door it was erected or repaired in the year 1595, Queen Elizabeth's reign, the house is of peculiar construction, consisting of a group of pointed gables, each of them terminating with a finial or pinnacle of a granite ball; most of the doors and windows are lancet-shaped, which give the building an ecclesiastical appearance. The vaults under Kill Abbey are very extensive' (Gaskin 1869, 201). Kill Abbey (NIAH reg. No. 60230126) was described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as a; 'Detached two-bay two-storey double-pile over basement house with half-dormer attic, extant 1740, on a staggered square plan; single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey lower return (north). Staggered pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof; pitched slate roof (north), clay ridge tiles, roughcast central chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, rendered coping to gable (north) with roughcast chimney stack to apex having corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on roughcast eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast walls centred on weathered coat of arms. A house representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of south County Dublin with the architectural value of the composition, one allegedly repurposing a house erected (1595) by John Ussher on a plot of ground leased (1592) from the Chapter of Christ Church Cathedral (Ball 1902, 50), suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form; the diminishing in scale of the widely spaced openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression with a later surface finish allegedly concealing evidence of blocked-up corresponding openings; the weathered coat of arms showing a griffin rampant; and the high pitched roof. Having been reasonably well maintained, the form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including crown or cylinder glazing panels in hornless sash frames: meanwhile, a 'complete [and] very wide' staircase showing Solomonic timber work (Pearson 1998, 150) confirms the late seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century origins of a house having historic connections with the Espinasse family including Richard Espinasse (d. 1842), 'Barrister-at-Law of Kill Abbey' (The Gentleman's Magazine 1842, 110); and his nephew, Richard Espinasse (d. 1874), 'late of Kill Abbey County Dublin' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1874, 187)' (https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/60230126/kill-abbey-kill-lane-kill-of-the-grange-dublin). See attached black and white photograph of Kill Abbey taken by Thomas Mason, from Ball 1902, 50 and colour photograph taken by Paddy Healy, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/1924 Wakeman, W.F. 1896 Proceedings - Descriptive Sketch of Places Visited. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 26, 403-18. Gaskin, J. 1869 Varieties of Irish History: From Ancient and Modern Sources and Original Documents. Dublin. W.B. Kelly. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 12 January 2023

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Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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