Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Killarcan, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killarcan
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LE027-128----
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The National Monuments Service's description
John O'Donovan, writing in 1836 (O'Flanagan 1929, 106; Herity 2012, 403), refers to a church dedicated to St Earcan in the townland of Killarcan, but no trace of it was visible then. Dromhekill, now called Killarcan outside Leitrim village, is depicted as church land (8) on the Down Survey (1656-8) parish map of Kiltahork (Kiiltoghert), for which see this web-page accessed on 24/03/2017: http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Leitrim&c=Leitrim&p=Kiltahorke However, a saint called Earcan is not known (Ó Riain 2011), nor is any church site at Killarcan.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 March, 2017
References
Ó Riain, P. 2011 A dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin. Four Courts Press.
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1929 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Leitrim collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1836. Bray.
Herity, M. (ed.) 2012 Ordnance Survey Letters: Londonderry, Fermanagh, Armagh-Monaghan, Louth, Cavan-Leitrim. Dublin, Fourmasters Press