Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Richard Taaffe'S Holding, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Richard Taaffe'S Holding
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Johns Church
- Coordinates
- 53.95017, -6.53699
- SMR number
- LH011-040001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
'Church' marked on the 1835 'OS 6-inch' map and later marked as 'St. John's Church' on the 1911 ed. A gothic style rectangular chapel (L 21m; Wth 9m) built in 1803 and in use until the 1920s. In ruinous state.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 4 April 2012
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.