Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Dungeel, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dungeel
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dungeel Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.10234, -9.72918
- SMR number
- KE057-064----
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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)
- 1841 · 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
In a children's burial ground (KE057-064001-). The remains of a rectangular church (13.45m E-W; c. 4.85m N-S; T 0.95m) built of sandstone. The remains consist of the ivy clad E gable (H c. 4-5m) with a short return of the N and S walls. The central E window comprises a single ogee-headed light (Wth 0.16m; H 1.7m) with hollowed-out spandrels. It has a splayed embrasure and is covered by a segmental arch. There is a breach (Wth 0.85m) in the wall at the S end. The short return of the S wall (H c. 2.3m) contains a lintelled wall-press. The W end of the S wall is low (H 0.4m) and earth covered. The short return of the N wall (H 1.8m) is incorporated into an earthen field boundary. The W gable survives as a low wall (H 0.4m). A mature tree occupies the E side of the interior. In the 1940s it was recorded that the 'white friars' said Mass here (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). A farm trackway extends along the S and W sides of the church. To the E of the church there is a spring well (c. 2m E-W; c. 1m N-S; D 0.45m) defined on the N and E sides by a stone wall, covered in earth and vegetation. A stream emerges from the well and flows to the S.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.