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"Church, Interior, Arklow, Co. Wicklow" is in Arklow, but definitely exterior

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 15 older comments, and then…
• Mike said:

  Wouldn't be surprised if some of your best detectives could hazard a guess as to where the church, whose interior you started to describe, is located. I have no idea where the fine building shown, is located.

• Niall McAuley said:

  There are arms on the building. Looks like two stags supporting a quartered shield with a crown and maybe a ship? Maybe a boar? The arms have a coronet, so baron or better.

• Niall McAuley said:

  Shelton Abbey, Arklow! (I looked at Eason photos nearby in the catalogue, and they are all mislabelled, and all near Arklow. Looking in the NIAH for Arklow produced this).

• derangedlemur said:

  I'm busy today, but you might try here: archiseek.com/buildings/ireland-buildings/demolished/page... A lot of stuff north of the border wound up flattened.

• Niall McAuley said:

  The Arms are of the Earls of Wicklow, and the "boar" is a lion.

British Library digitised image from page 296 of "The County Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. vol. 1, 2. (Vol. 3-5. A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen ... of Great Britain and Ireland. With descriptive

from British Library

• chico945 said:

  Shelton Abbey is currently a penal institution operated by the Irish Prison Service. Since the early 1970s, the mansion has been used as an open prison for males aged 19 years and over who are regarded as requiring lower levels of security.