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Chapel

Marlay, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Chapel, Marlay, 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
Marlay
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Mortuary chapel
Coordinates
53.81268, -6.35043
SMR number
LH018-041----

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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

Marked on the 1911 'OS 6-inch' map as 'Mortuary chapel'. Situated in a small enclosure, which is higher than the field in which it stands. The foundations of a small rectangular building (5.5m x 4m) with corner buttresses and a buttress on the outside of the N and S wall were visible in 1966 when inspected by ASI. Davies (1944, 284) suggests that the building was never completed. A cross-inscribed slab (LH018-041001-) found here is now in St. Peters Church in Drogheda (Davies 1944, 284).

Compiled by: Claire Breen

Date of upload: 5 July 2012

References

Davies, O. 1944 Old Churches in County Louth (Continued). County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 10 (3), 277-296.

Nearby in the register

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

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