Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Gortleck, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortleck
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- R C Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- R. C. Chapel (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 55.19518, -7.49029
- SMR number
- DG019-005----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a graveyard (DG019-005001-). This may be the location of a medieval church, of which there are now no visible remains. It is believed to be the site of Desertegny, an early monastic foundation (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 379). Davies (1940) recorded the following: 'Greenhill graveyard now occupied by a ruined chapel, but believed to be the original parish graveyard with a church which had been abandoned by 1693. The original graveyard partly outside the modern enclosure and behind the chapel was circular'. The current church, which stands in the N half of the graveyard, is late 18th or early 19th-century in date, and is indicated on the 1836 OS 6-inch map as ‘R.C. Chapel’. It is a ruined, roofless structure of mortared stone, aligned NW−SE, with Gothic-style windows and doorway.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 30 July 2018
References
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Davies, O. 1940 Unpublished Irish Tourism Association Survey (Reports deposited in the National Museum Ireland).
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.