Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballinvally And Kiltennell, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinvally And Kiltennell
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kiltennell Church (in ruins), Graveyard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kiltennell Church (in Ruins), Graveyard
- Coordinates
- 52.60558, -6.87309
- SMR number
- CW022-017001-
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid 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
Remains of rectangular church represented by grass-covered foundations of E and S walls, with eighteenth-century chapel attached at E. Door jamb visible at W end of S wall. Described in OS Letters (1839, 88, 90) as being 14.6m by 6.4m, with doorway with segmental arch in S wall, close to W gable. E gable lit by pair of opes with 'two curvilinearly pointed arches at top' (ogee heads) with segmental rear arch and splay. Granite ogee head incorporated in chapel dedicated in 1709. Circular granite font, with vertical sides and drainage hole.
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.