Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Rathlust, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathlust
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilpatrick Church (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.82264, -6.54600
- SMR number
- LH017-050001-
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
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
According to MacIvor (CLAJ 1949, 32) there was a medieval parish church here, but at the time of writing there was little physical evidence of the structure other than some of the building stones which were incorporated in a wall forming a rough circle around the site. Davies (CLAJ 1943, 207) says that it was situated on a small hill within a graveyard which was circular. The field incorporating the site is known as 'Chapel field' (CLAJ 1944, 330). No visible surface trace. See LH017-048---- for the possible location of some of the stones of the church.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.