Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballyshannon Demesne, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyshannon Demesne
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church on Site of St. James Church
- Coordinates
- 53.08640, -6.82631
- SMR number
- KD028-058002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the centre of a small graveyard (KD028-058004-). Depicted on an 1853 sketch of an original ‘Plan of the Castle of Ballyshannon [KD032-003002-], with its Outworks [KD032-003001-], in 1650’, as a roofed rectangular structure, lit by three windows in the N wall and one in the W gable wall, with a doorway near the W end of the N wall; and annotated, ‘The Church. On the other side stood our Mortter piece.’ (Fitzgerald 1899-1902, 447). The present church is recorded on the OS mapping as, ‘Church on Site of St. James’s Church’ and appears to be 19th-century in date. It is a heavily pebble-dashed, rectangular structure (c. 16m E-W; c. 10m N-S) with a tall porch at the W gable wall and a small sacristy attached at the NE angle. Lit by large opposed ‘Gothic-style’ windows in the N and S walls, it has a small bell cote on the W gable. A double-doorway has been inserted near the W end of the N wall, and the church is no longer used for religious purposes. It may stand on the site of an earlier, medieval church.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 21 May 2013
References
FitzGerald, Lord W. 1899-1902 The FitzGeralds of Ballyshannon (Co. Kildare), and their successors thereat. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 3, 425-52.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Bastioned fortunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.