Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Killegy Lower, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killegy Lower
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killegy Ch. (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.02856, -9.48690
- SMR number
- KE066-082001-
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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
On a hillock, to the E of the Killarney-Kenmare Road and within a graveyard (KE066-082004-). There are no visible remains of the church. It was indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a cruciform church 'in ruins' (c. 20m E-W; c. 18m N-S) in the SW corner of the graveyard. Skinner (1945, 6) suggests that the remains of the old church was converted into a family mortuary chapel which now stands in the SE quadrant of the graveyard (see KE066-082004-). Some dressed jambstones around the door ope and head of the E window in this chapel are possibly from the earlier church.
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Quayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.