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
- R.C. Chapel
- Latest-edition OS map
- R.C. Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.94907, -6.54340
- SMR number
- LH011-041001-
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked 'R. C. Chapel' on the 1835 'OS 6-inch' map and 'R.C. Church (In Ruins)' on the 1911 'OS 6-inch' map. In ruinous state (L 25m; Wth 12m). (SMR file). The Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts notes that the 'The remains of the old church walls are to be seen in the new cemetery in Louth. The new cemetery was first used about when the new church was built' (933, 142-3).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 4 April 2012
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.