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Church

Fossa, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Fossa, 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
Fossa
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
St. Lelia Catholic Church
Coordinates
52.07118, -9.58380
SMR number
KE066-122----

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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

On the N side of a road, in Fossa village. A cruciform church (long axis E-W) with transepts towards the E end. The church is lit by pointed windows. An entrance porch has been added to the W end of the S wall. There are brick corner buttresses at the W end and a limestone bellcote on top of the W gable. Indicated as a T-shaped structure on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. Lewis (1837, vol. 2, 128) refers to it as a 'chapel of ease' for the parish of Aghadoe. Currently in use as community centre. Inside the church in the E wall of the N transept is a piscina (KE066-021----) which was moved to here from Killalee church (KE066-008----) in 1921.

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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