Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Port (bawnboy Ed), County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Port (bawnboy Ed)
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ruin
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Mogues Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 54.09655, -7.67344
- SMR number
- CV013-049001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated on a natural island in Templeport Lough. Davies (1948, 116) noted documentary evidence for a church here in 1496. Patterson and Davies (1940, 154-6) described foundations of a rectangular drystone-built church (int. dims. 12m ENE-WSW; 5.3m NNW-SSE). They recorded that E wall then stood to a height of 0.9m and that S wall had been destroyed at W corner and another wall of rough ashlar standing about 6m high had been built across it. The W wall according to their observations contains a large rectangular window which they suggested was 'a type unusual in ecclesiastical buildings, in this position'. Within the graveyard they found several querns and architectural fragments indicative of the late 15th or early 16th century. Not visited. (CUCAP BGQ 69)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.