Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballynafagh, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynafagh
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Rns.)
- Coordinates
- 53.31211, -6.77383
- SMR number
- KD013-005002-
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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
According to Reid (1999, 8) the church 'was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and entered in Dr Mac Geoghans's list as 'Ecclesia Sanctae Mariae do Ballynaffaghy'. It is shown on Noble and Keenan's 1752 Map of County Kildare, and is marked 'Church Ruins' on Taylor's 1783 Map of County Kildare. The OSL (Herity 2002, 34) record that, 'Near the South East corner of the Parochial Church (KD013-005004-), stands a small portion of a wall belonging to the old Church'. The ruins lie near the centre of a graveyard (KD013-005003-). Only a short length of the N wall of the building survives (L 6m; H 2m; T 0.9m), built of rubble limestone masonry, with a mix of large unworked boulders and smaller field stones facing a mortared rubble core. It contains a partially robbed-out window embrasure just E of centre, and retains a dump of stones against its S face.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 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.