Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballybarrack, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybarrack
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.98600, -6.42506
- SMR number
- LH007-072007-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Built of blocks and slabs of greywacke (ext. dims. c. 16m E-W, c. 7m N-S). Extensively repointed and converted recently into an oratory. Undivided nave and chancel, doorway with reveals in W end of S wall. Windows in E gable are almost certainly part of recent renovations. Walls other than at E only rise c. 1.2m above the present ground level and are featureless. The proportions of the building and the position of the doorway with its reveals indicate a church of fifteenth- or sixteenth-century date. (Tempest 1952, 123; CLAJ 1919-20, pl. opp. 357, 387; CLAJ 1941, 14; CLAJ 1952, 232)
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.