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NAME:	CLONDALKIN (SAINT JOHN'S)
ADDRESS:	Tower Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22.
UNDER THE CARE OF:	Select Vestry of Clondalkin.
CONTACT:	St John's Rectory, 5 Monastery Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. Tel: (01) 4592160.
PERIOD OF USE:	The graveyard is divided into three sections: Main graveyard around church (formerly a public burial ground) contains burials from C.630 AD to c. 1881. An enclosed graveyard, north of the church (Church of Ireland burials only) contains burials from c.1881 to c.1953. A new graveyard North East of the church (Church of Ireland burials only) contains burials from 1953 to date. Some burial rights may still exist for the two older sections.
PRESENT RECORD LOCATIONS:	Church of Ireland burial registers 1724 and 1772-2001 are at the Representative Church Body Library. A database transcript of Church of Ireland burials, 1779-1900 with some earlier, is at www.irishgenealogy.ie
SURVEY:	Egan, Michael J.S., Memorials of the Dead: Dublin City and County Vol. 8 (1995)
ADDITIONAL:	The graveyard contains two medieval crosses, one of which is a supposed barony marker for the Barony of Uppercross. An old medieval baptismal font, along with various small remains of the old church (demolished 1787), is in existence. The oldest inscribed tombstone is to a Michel Connor a shoemaker late of Dublin who died in 1643. The Clondalkin Round Tower stands opposite the church. The present church was built in 1789-90. For further information see Roy H. Byrne and Ann Graham, From Generation to Generation , Dublin, 1990.
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