Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Forgney, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Forgney
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Forgney Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.54128, -7.69997
- SMR number
- LF027-037001-
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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
In pasture on a steep SSE-facing slope overlooking wet ground, to the E of the centre of a subrectangular graveyard (LF027-037002-). In 1406 the annals record that 'The church of Forgnaidhe was burned by the family of Robert Dalton' (Ó hInnse 1947, 179). It is depicted on an early 17th-century map of Shrule barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.ii.26). This late-medieval church is constructed of reasonably well-coursed masonry; only the N (L 14.1m) and E walls (L 7m) still survive. Apart from a niche in the N wall, no architectural features are visible. St Patrick's Well (LF027-036----) lies c. 320m to the WNW. (Elrington 1847, 1, 119; Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 385)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 4 June 2013
References
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Erlington, C.R. 1847-64 The whole works of the Rev. James Ussher, D.D., Lord Archbishop of Armagh, and primate of all Ireland, 16 vols. Dublin. Hodges and Smith.
Ó hInnse, S. (ed.) 1947 'Mac Carthaig's Book', Miscellaneous Irish Annals (AD 1114-1437). The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
British Library, Cotton Manuscripts, Augustus I. Charts of the baronies of Granard, Rathcline, Longford, Ardagh, Shrule and Moydow, County Longford. London. (microfilm, NLI p. 1364)
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.