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Donabate Church


Over the doorway on the south side of St. Patrick's Church of Ireland in Donabate village is a large wooden sundial. 650mm wide by 750mm high with a scroll iron gnomon it shows the time from 7a.m. to 6p.m. in Roman numerals with IIII for four.

Donabate is on the coast, 15K north of Dublin, off the M1 on the R126 road.

Lat 53° 29' North  Long 6° 9' West

Irish Grid  O   3 22670   250170


If you know the location of a sundial in Ireland (NOT a mass produced DIY Store garden ornament) please email it to me (Click here to email M.J.Harley) - a member of British Sundial Society
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