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Church

Scattery Island, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Scattery Island, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Scattery Island
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Knocknanangle Church (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Knocknanangel Church (in Ruins) (1923)
Coordinates
52.61261, -9.51932
SMR number
CL067-024013-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the highest point of Scattery Island on the SW perimeter of a natural circular esker (Wth c. 15-20m; H up to 2m) and c. 200m SW of the cathedral (CL067-024008-). Named ‘Knocknanangel’ the church is a single cell structure (int. dims. 14.55m E-W; 4.97m N-S; ext. dims. 16.28m E-W; 6.48m N-S) in very poor condition with only the foundations and lower courses of the W, N and E walls remaining. The S wall remains to a height of c. 2.2-3.9m and had a rubble core which is exposed in a number of places. It has very large stones and is described by Westropp (199-02, 170) as ‘of fine masonry, of unusual size’. There are two doorways in the S wall. One doorway (Wth 1.25m) towards the W end is reduced to its foundations. The second doorway (Wth 0.8m) with straight ingoings is towards the E end of the S wall. There is a window embrasure (Wth 1.05m) between the two doors but its window is robbed out. Cairn material outside this wall may be the remains of a structure attached to the E doorway but no ground plan could be made out. The N wall is reduced to its foundations except for a portion towards the E end. It had a centrally placed doorway (Wth 1.3m). A grass-covered platform (c. 9m N-S; 7.2m E-W) defined by low scarps may have been a structure related to the church. (Westropp 1897, 285-6) This is a national monument in state care, no. 10.

The following image has been uploaded:
CL067-024013-_01.jpg View of remains of Knocknanangel from NE.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 19 September 2016

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1971).

References

Westropp, T.J. 1900-02 The churches of Co. Clare and the origin of the ecclesiastical divisions in that county. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Series 3, vol. 6, 100-180.

Westropp, T.J. 1897 Descriptive sketch of places visited. Part 1. Scattery Island and Canons' island, Co. Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 27, 273-90.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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