Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Churchtown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchtown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Medocs Church
- Coordinates
- 53.88827, -6.61428
- SMR number
- LH013-028001-
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
Site of early foundation for which bishops are recorded in the ninth century. Medieval church was in disrepair in 1692 and was subsequently removed. Present church nineteenth-century in date. No trace of earlier foundation. In the course of repair works in 1973 a single-light window with splayed jambs was exposed in the south wall perhaps indicating the presence of earlier fabric (SMR file). (Davies 1943, 204; Mac Iomhair 1964, 332; Buckley 1986a, 901)
Updated by: Paul Walsh
Revised date of upload: 25 August 2015
References
Davies, O. 1943 Old Churches in County Louth (Continued). County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 10 (3), 200-212.
Mac Iomhair, D. 1964 The history of Fir Rois. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 15 (3), 321-48.
Buckley, V.M. 1986a Archaeological Inventory of County Louth. Dublin. The Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.