Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ardunsaghan, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardunsaghan
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- RC Chapel
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 54.02697, -7.73024
- SMR number
- LE025-104001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated on a S-facing slope down to the N bank of a small SW-NE stream and on the W side of a minor N-S road. There is a fragment of wall (L 1.4m; H 1.45m; T 0.6m) within a rectangular walled graveyard (dims 36m N-S; 26m E-W). This is the remains of the Roman Catholic church depicted as a T-shaped structure on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map and described as a thatched chapel ‘53ft by 24ft by 8ft high’ (c. 16m x c. 7m x c. 2.5m) which was ruinous in 1838 (Gallogly 1993-4, 432). There is no record of, or indication of, an older structure.
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
Gallogly, Rev. D. 1993-4 Kilmore churches. Journal of Cumann Seanchas Breifne (Breifne Historical Society) 8 (30), 389-444.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannog1 mi
- Crannog1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.