Church

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated towards the bottom of a S-facing slope overlooking the E end of Lough Gill. This is probably an estate church attached to Parke's Castle (LE010-037---), which is c. 140m to the S. This is a rectangular stone structure (int. dims 12.1m E-W; 5.9m N-S) built of coarse mortared limestone masonry (Wth 0.6m; H 2-3m) with dressed quoins which survives fairly complete, except for the W wall (H 0.7m). There is a destroyed window and a destroyed doorway in the S wall. There are plain limestone grave-markers within the church, but there is no evidence of burial in the overgrown rectangular field (dims 38m N-S; 18m E-W) attached to the N, which may have served as a graveyard. There is a record of a headstone commemorating the Parke family and dated 1677 (FitzGerald 1910-12) which cannot now be found. Archaeological testing (07E0042) c. 25m to the W produced no related material (Henry 2010).

The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 23 September 2008

References

Fitzgerald, Lord W. 1910-12c Cartron (Lough Gill) "Church", parish of Drumlease. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland. Vol. 8, 581.

Henry, M. 2010 Cartron. No archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 286, No. 1097. Dublin. Wordwell.