Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Clonegall, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonegall
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church, Graveyard
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Fiachs Church, Graveyard
- Coordinates
- 52.69878, -6.64716
- SMR number
- CW018-016001-
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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
Tickell (JKAS 1960, 408) mentions reference to church or chapel in 'Moyacan' now Clonegall, in Royal Grant of 1627 to Sir Maurice Eustace. Down Survey records church as 'ruined' in 1650. Present remains consist of central raised mound (H c. 3m) enclosed by fosse with external bank visible from W-N-NE, elsewhere modified by extention of graveyard (CW018-016006-). Nineteenth-century church now stands on mound. Cross base of socketed squared granite boulder. Quern stone found in graveyard in 1902 (JAPMD 1905, 192) and placed in present church. Earthwork is probably ringfort in origin although also resembles modified motte.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.