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Innisfallen, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Innisfallen, 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
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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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

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

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