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Church

Churchground, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Churchground, 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
Churchground
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
R.C. Chapel
Coordinates
51.90335, -9.43794
SMR number
KE094-004004-

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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)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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

In Kilgarvan village, in a graveyard (KE094-004003-). The ruins of a cruciform church (long axis N-S) built of random rubble sandstone with shaped quoins; patches of render are visible on the interior and exterior faces of the walls. The E wall of the short chancel, the E transept and the N part of the E wall of the nave no longer survive. The nave (int. c. 25m N-S; 6.4m E-W) was lit by four large pointed opes, now blocked, in the W wall. A door ope at the centre of the S wall of the nave is partially masked by the insertion of an external statue niche. The W transept (int. 6.3m N-S; 4.6m E-W) has a large blocked window ope in its W wall. A blocked rectangular ope in the S wall may have been a door. The remains of an overgrown shallow chancel at N with a narrow light in the W wall. A crossing wall (T 0.6m; L 6.4m; long axis E-W) inserted near the N end of the nave cuts off the transept and chancel from the nave. The 1895 OS 6-inch map indicates that the chancel and transepts were roofless by this time. The ruins of a medieval church (KE094-004001-) are to the E.

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

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

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