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Drumfea, County Carlow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Drumfea, 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
Drumfea
County
Carlow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
R.C. Chapel (in ruins), Stone Cross
Latest-edition OS map
Stone Cross, Childrens Burial Ground, Graveyard
Coordinates
52.65903, -6.83898
SMR number
CW020-002001-

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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 revision: 22 December 2009
Revised by: J. Farrelly

Present remains consist of random coursed granite rubble of NE angle and adjacent walls standing to approximately full height in places. Foundations indicate rectangular structure (L 17.5m or 22m (W end obscured by eighteenth-century headstone) x Wth 6m). W splay of narrow ope close to NE corner. All quoins and ope surrounds missing. Rectangular granite font (CW020-002004-) with outlet beside corner. Children's burial ground (CW020-002002-) immediately N of graveyard (CW020-002005-), consisting of small unenclosed uncultivated rectangular area, marked by plain granite Latin cross (CW020-002003-), possibly of no great antiquity. (Comerford 1886, Vol III, 321; JRSAI 1907, 237)

References

Comerford, Rev. M. 1883-6 Collections relating to the dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin, 3 vols. James Duffy and Sons. Dublin.

Nearby in the register

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

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