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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.95443, -6.54099
- SMR number
- LH011-115001-
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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
Possible church of SS Peter and Paul, in ruins and consisting of a fragment of a N wall known locally as the 'Pinnacle'. It is featureless except for a beam slot at first-floor level in its S face. Slight remains of the W wall project from its W end so that the remaining fragment is at the NW angle of the structure. It has been identified as an Augustinian house (CLAJ 1916, 62-3), but Bradley (CLAJ 1985, 14-15) amongst others considers this to be unlikely because of the proximity of Louth Abbey (LH011-115005-) and because the site is not large enough to accommodate a substantial structure. (CLAJ 1942, 106; CLAJ 1985, 14-15)
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Holed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.