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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Ballynabrennagh Upper, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Ballynabrennagh Upper, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballynabrennagh Upper
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Templeone, Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Templeone, Hachured
Coordinates
52.30038, -9.64625
SMR number
KE029-043----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

Depicted on the 1841 ed. OS 6-inch map as a square-shaped earthwork which is annotated 'Templeone' which may suggest the site of a church. Church site (KE029-042001) located 240m to WSW. Hickson (1880, 362-3) recorded that 'Lismore House occupying part of its site; a little to the east of the house are the ruins of two or three tiny oratories or churches (KE029-042001-), and a well called Tubbernataggart, i.e. "the priest's well"; but the grass-grown foundations, with a few scattered stones, are all that remain of the former, since an enterprising Scotch (Lowland) farmer carted away the rest of the sacred buildings a few years ago to build his fences, although there was a limestone quarry near at hand'. Listed by Hurley (1979, 93) as 'Templeone' as an early church site.
In pasture, on moderate N facing slope with good views. Raised sub-circular shaped area (dims. c. 39m N-S x 33m E-W ) enclosed by an earthen bank (top Wth 0.6m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.3m) with entrance gap (Wth 3.1m) at NNW. Interior slopes slightly to N. A raised sub-rectangular shaped area (dims. 11.75m x 9.2m) is visible in NE side of interior built against the base of the enclosing bank, which could be the remains of a possible church site. Outline of earthwork clearly visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.

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Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 15 June 2022

References

Hurley, V. 1979 The distribution, origins and development of temple as a church name in the south-west of Ireland. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 84, 74-94.

Hickson, M.A. 1880 Notes on Kerry Topography, Ancient and Modern, with Extracts from the Unpublished Desmond Survey and Inquisition (Continued). The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, 349-64.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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