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Church

Darver, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Darver, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Darver
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Church (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
St. Michaels Ch. (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.92700, -6.46427
SMR number
LH011-098001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Built of roughly coursed limestone blocks and greywacke; undivided nave and chancel (int. dims. c. 23m by c. 4.15m, Wth of walls c. 0.9m). In a poor state of preservation with part of W wall collapsed and large areas of S and N walls totally destroyed. E gable window splayed and built of undressed limestone on the outside, while inner face has been robbed of its moulded or dressed stone. Gaps in N and S walls at W ends may represent opposing doorways. It would appear from the type of stonework and the positions of the opposing doorways that this is a late medieval church. A piece of dressed sandstone with diagonal tooling, indicating a twelfth- or thirteenth-century date, was found on the rubble of the destroyed N wall, but is hardly from the present structure. (Tempest 1952b, 130)

The above 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: 17 July 2007

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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