Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Oughtmama, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oughtmama
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins) (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.11719, -9.03737
- SMR number
- CL003-032004-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the SE end of a large fertile valley at the N foot of Turlough Hill and some 55m NE of two adjacent churches (CL003-032002- and CL003-032003-) within an ecclesiastical enclosure (CL003-032007-). A poorly preserved rectangular church (int. dims. 6.7m ENE-WSW; 3.6m NNW-SSE) of roughly coursed limestone blocks standing on a narrow plinth. The E gable survives to close to its original height of 3.5m. The church was lit by a narrow, round-headed, widely splayed window in the E gable beneath which is a small rectangular aumbry. The other walls only survive to c. 1.4m and are featureless. There is a gap (Wth 1.2m) at the W end of the S wall where the doorway would have been. This church and all of the churches at Oughtmama are national monuments in State Care, no. 12.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL003-032004-_01.jpg View of church from W.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 13 February 2018
References
Large, S. 2011 A church and graveyard survey in County Clare. Database and photographic record. Clare County Council. Clare Heritage Forum. The Heritage Council.
Nearby in the register
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.