Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Oakpark Or Painestown, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oakpark Or Painestown
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church, Graveyard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins), Graveyard
- Coordinates
- 52.86092, -6.91174
- SMR number
- CW002-007001-
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
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of revision: 16 December 2009
Revised by: J. Farrelly
Present remains consist of poorly constructed and derelict mausoleum, probably incorporating parts of chancel of featureless earlier structure, including N wall. Of randomly coursed limestone on slight rise in graveyard. Architectural fragments in graveyard (CW002-007002-) include ogival window heads, jambs and arch stones, granite base and parts of late medieval basin of font.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.