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Church

Richard Taaffe'S Holding, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Richard Taaffe'S Holding, 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
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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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

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

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

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