Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Doorath, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doorath
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK022-034----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Holahan (1883, 92-3) refers to, ‘a chapel formerly at the quarries near John Murphy’s house at Dowrath. The old road from Kilmanagh passed by this place, and thence on to Ballyhack. It is probable that after the Catholics had been driven from the ancient church of Ballycallan they built a chapel on the hillside at Dourath. There is not a stone upon a stone of this building now remaining. The site alone is pointed out. Nor was it used as a place of worship within the last one hundred and fifty years’. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 447) also mentions this chapel, describing the location as being, ‘at Dowrath quarry, on the hillside, adjoining the wood of Knocknacorriga, now Ballykeeffe Hill’ and he states that it has been ‘entirely obliterated’. This was a 'Mass-house' or penal chapel dating to the late 17th/18th century. The precise location of the chapel within the townland is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 May 2021
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.
Holahan, Rev. J. 1883 Notes on the antiquities of the united parishes of Ballycallan, Kilmanagh and Killaloe. Transactions of the Ossory Archaeological Society 3, part 1, 81-122.