Survey Data
Reg No
11216026
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Moravian Burial Ground
Original Use
Graveyard/cemetery
In Use As
Graveyard/cemetery
Date
1740 - 1760
Coordinates
314788, 226045
Date Recorded
10/05/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Enclosed Moravian cemetery, c.1750, with roughcast rendered boundary wall and rock-faced granite ashlar entrance gateway having cast-iron gate in pointed opening. Carved name plaque above. Axial path within, with flat, square stone grave markers arranged in rows to either side. Avenue of cherry trees flanking path.
Appraisal
Graveyard used from the eighteenth until the early twentieth century by followers of the evangelical religious sect founded in Ireland by John Cennick, who came to Dublin in 1746. It thus forms part of the religious and social history of Dublin and its minority groups. It preserves a planned ritual landscape and the distinctive grave markers, and provides a contrast to more usual Victorian ideas on garden cemeteries.