Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Killoughternane, County Carlow, Ireland
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-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 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
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.