Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Innisfallen, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Innisfallen
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.04627, -9.55468
- SMR number
- KE066-072007-
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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
National Monument No. 183. On a hillock close to the SE shoreline, on Innisfallen Island in Lough Leane. A single-cell rectangular oratory (ext. dims. 6.8m x 5m; int. dims. 5.1m x 3.4m) constructed on three limestone plinths (extending c. 0.1-0.2m beyond the foundation courses). The W gable stands to almost its full height (H c. 2.5m), elsewhere the walls stand to a max. H of 1m. The church is constructed of limestone and has undergone some restoration. The W sandstone doorway with plain round arch and well-cut, slightly inclining jambs (H 1.9m; Wth at springers 0.6m; Wth at base 0.65m) is of early Hiberno-Romanesque style; possibly late 11th/early 12th century. The E window does not survive. An altar has been inserted at the E end. The Augustinian Abbey (KE066-072001-) lies a short distance to the N. (Weaver 1995)
M. Weaver 1995 'An architectural survey of Inisfallen Island, Lough Leane, Co. Kerry.' MA Thesis, Dept. of Archaeology, UCC.
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
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.