Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Corcormick, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corcormick
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 54.19385, -8.11802
- SMR number
- LE016-016001-
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on top of a drumlin. There are no known references to this church, and it is marked only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The church is a rectangular structure (int. dims 12.5m E-W; 5.4m N-S) of roughly coursed and mortared walls (max. H 1.2m; T 1.1m) with cairn material. There are faint traces of a rectangular building (ext. dims 6m E-W; 3m N-S) abutting its N wall towards the E end. Near the church is a stone from a chamfered doorway (dims 0.52m x 0.34m; H 0.2m) with a wingless griffin, engraved in false relief on the underside.
The church is within a grass-covered subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 42m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.6-3m; H 0.5-0.8m) which is incorporated into a field bank NW-NE and removed SSE-SW. Two old field banks extend W from the church to the perimeter of the enclosure. A children's burial ground (LE016-016003-) lies immediately E of the church, but otherwise there is no evidence of burial.
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
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.