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Church

Killoughternane, County Carlow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Killoughternane, County Carlow, 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
Killoughternane
County
Carlow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
White Chapel (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
White Chapel (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.63385, -6.85362
SMR number
CW019-048001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 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)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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 upload/revision: 17 July 2007

National Monument No. 393. Small, rectangular eighth or ninth-century single cell church (2.7m x 3.7m) with antae. Of large, well-finished granite boulders. Entrance with restored jambs in W gable. One round-headed window in E gable, with splayed rounded rear arch. Only lower courses of S and W walls preserved. Granite font with rectangular basin with central outlet, single basin bullaun stone. Holy well (CW019-049001-) 100m to E. (JRSAI 1943, 98-100) Preservation Order no. 73/1939.

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 73/1939). It was subsequently taken into Guardianship on the 24/07/1940.

Nearby in the register

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

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