Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Donaghmore, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Donaghmore
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Donaghmore Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Donaghmore Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.37688, -6.55314
- SMR number
- KD006-005003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the S sector of a graveyard (KD006-005004-) on an early monastic site (KD006-005001-). The poorly preserved, ivy-clad remains of a rectangular structure built of uncoursed limestone blocks (wall T 0.9m). An account by Lord Walter Fitzgerald (1903-5, 26-28) contains a ground plan showing a nave (dims. L c. 9.9m ESE-WNW; Wth c. 5.1m) and chancel (dims. L c. 4.9m ESE-WNW; Wth c. 3.7m) with breaks in the N and S walls of the nave, and the information that the ruins were repointed in 1892 by order of the Duke of Leinster. A segmented, pointed rubble arch (Wth 2.4m; H 2.7m) of thin flagstones in the E wall of the nave gave access to the chancel which has been levelled since, and the area is now occupied by a large grave plot. The W gable of the nave is surmounted by a small bellcote and has a narrow loft light with a square head and internal splay. The interior contains numerous headstones. Displaced limestone door jambs mentioned in an earlier Fitzgerald account (1896-99, 156) were not located.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
References
FitzGerald, Lord W. 1903-5 Carton. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 4, 2-34.
FitzGerald, Lord W. 1896-9 Queries. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 11, 158.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.