Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Cappoge, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappoge
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.84812, -6.40626
- SMR number
- LH018-004001-
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
Built of rubble limestone, boulders and greywacke, and situated on a slight rise overlooking the immediate countryside. It has a W bellcote with punch-dressed limestone jambs. Undivided nave and chancel (int. dims. c. 17m E-W and c. 5m N-S). Doorway in W end of S wall with reveals, bar holes and rounded arch constructed of greywacke with central keystone. Only small portion of the featureless E wall remains. Splayed ope in W gable below bellcote and to its S. Remains of other splayed ope at W end of N wall. This is a fifteenth- or sixteenth-century parish church. (CLAJ 1924, 282; CLAJ 1943, 203)
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.