Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballygibbon (muskerry East By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygibbon (muskerry East By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Marys Catholic Church (1937)
- Coordinates
- 51.95503, -8.57477
- SMR number
- CO062-200001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At Waterloo, overlooking bridge and crossroads. Cruciform church built 1815-17; Mulcahy (1989a, 14-15) records a plaque with Irish inscription attributing the building to 'Fr. Matt [Horgan] and his people'. Described by Lewis (1837, vol. 1, 650) as 'neat Gothic structure'. Nave lit by narrow pointed lancets with switchline tracery, stained glass window in N wall over altar. Exterior elevations plastered and adorned with quartrefoil niches and string courses. Immediately to E is slightly later bell tower (CO062-200002-).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - belvedereunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.