Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Barmeath, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barmeath
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Chapel
- Latest-edition OS map
- Chapel (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.82453, -6.33538
- SMR number
- LH018-036----
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 roughly coursed greywacke. Nineteenth-century stonework in W doorway with armorial slab over, stating that it was built by Mary Dillon, relict of John Bellew, in 1697. Earlier doorway, blocked up, in W end of S wall appears to be of a late seventeenth-century date. Main fabric of the church may be as early as the sixteenth century. Int. dims. c. 8m E-W, c. 5m N-S. (CLAJ 1921, 31; CLAJ 1944, 283-4)
Nearby in the register
- Hermitageunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.