Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Killowen, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killowen
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 51.88407, -9.56847
- SMR number
- KE093-115001-
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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
In a graveyard (KE093-115002-), on the S side of a road c. 1km NE of Kenmare town. A roofless rectangular Church of Ireland church (ext. 17.75m E-W; 7.5m N-S) built of of random rubble, with render surviving at the W end. It is lit by four pointed windows in the S wall and a large pointed window in the E wall. There is a three-storey tower (ext. 3.8m N-S; 2.85m E-W) at the W end with a pointed door in its S wall; internally the ground floor and first floor are roughly circular in plan. The parapet has stepped crenellations, surmounted by pinnacles, at the corners. A limestone plaque on the exterior of the S wall of the tower records that the church was rebuilt in 1814.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.