Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Fossa, County Kerry, Ireland
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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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 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
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.