Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Tonaknock, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tonaknock
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.38286, -9.69698
- SMR number
- KE015-108001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Killahan Church (in ruins), graveyard (KE015-108003-). This ivy clad church is situated within a graveyard and is in a fairly ruinous condition. To the W of this site, across a road, lies the stone cross of Tonaknock (KE015-108002-). This church is a rectangular building measuring 21.5m x 6.6m externally, with the wall measuring just over 1m thick. The E gable is gone, as is a section of the N wall near the W gable. The doorway is on the S wall, 4m from the W gable, and measures 1m in width and 2.5m in height.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 952. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 3 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross - High cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.