Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Harristown Lower, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Harristown Lower
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.09612, -6.97166
- SMR number
- KD027-023----
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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
In a graveyard (KD027-023001-) A densely ivy-clad rectangular structure (int. 18.7m E-W; 6.3m N-S) is built of irregularly coursed and mortared limestone. Most of the N wall and the E portion of the S wall are represented by the lowest courses only. Sections of the E and W gable walls are also robbed out, and no windows appear to survive. The entrance (Wth 1.25m), in the S wall towards the W end, has an external recessed limestone two-centered surround, and traces of a large wooden lintel on the inside. A small, 19th-century burial plot abuts the external face of the W gable wall. The interior contains a font (KD027-023002-), and several modern burials.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 31 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.