Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballymore Eustace East (Ballymore Eustace ED), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymore Eustace East (Ballymore Eustace ED)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.13141, -6.60611
- SMR number
- KD029-011002-
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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
In a graveyard (KD029-011004-) at the E edge of Ballymore Eustace, a historic town (KD029-011001-). According to Bradley et al. (1986, vol. 1, 77-8), the first reference to a church occurs in 1192, although the presence two high crosses (KD029-011006- and KD029-011007-) and a cross slab (KD029-011009-) in the graveyard indicates the existence of a significant pre-Norman church site. The church was a prebend of St. Patrick’s cathedral in Dublin from before 1227 when it was valued at 20 marks. It is referred to as the ‘church of Blessed Mary of Ballymore’ in a document of 1529-34. The church was described as in good repair in the Royal Visitation of 1615, but had deteriorated by the time of Archbishops Bulkley’s Visitation in 1630. Few physical remains survive: fragments of two walls are visible to the E (L 1.8m; H 3m; T 1.05m) containing a splayed ope, and S (L 2m; H c. 1m; T 1.05m) of the present, 19th-century church. A font (KD029-011010-) in the porch of the 19th-century church presumably came from the medieval church, while a second font (KD029-011013-) in the graveyard is said to have come from Coghlanstown church (KD029-005001-).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 30 August 2013
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- Graveyardunder 1 mi
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- Holed stoneunder 1 mi
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