Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Architectural fragment
Gransha Lower, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gransha Lower
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.17261, -9.69433
- SMR number
- KE047-029005-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The medieval church and graveyard of Kiltallagh (Cill Tulach) is located in the townland of Gransha Lower, parish of Kiltallagh, diocese of Ardfert, barony of Trughanacmy. C. of I. church dedicated to St. Carthach stands in N quadrant of circular-shaped graveyard the N boundary of which forms the townland boundary with Meanus. Field to SW annotated 'Church Field' on 1841 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Graveyard entered off public road to S with second entrance leading from graveyard at NE towards Kiltallagh House located 137m to the NE. Cloghmacudda (KE047-028001-) 123m to E. In 1871 there was a reference to architectural fragments of the medieval church which stated that the medieval church site 'stood where the Protestant church now stands. There are some stones of the old building scatter about the graveyard, and one in the immediate vicinity, hollowed in the shape of an inverted cone, around people pay rounds. This is called Cloch-Mochaeda [KE047-028001-], or the stone of St. Carthage Mochaeda' (Cusack 1871, 453). Architectural fragment of medieval church located outside the SE corner of the C of I church (KE047-029001-).
See attached photograph of head of twin light ogee-headed window with sunken spandrels belonging to the medieval church courtesy of Amanda Clarke
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 23 May 2022
References
Cusack, M.F. 1871 A history of the kingdom of Kerry. London. Longmans, Green and Co.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.