Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Chapel
Marlay, County Louth, Ireland
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----
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
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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.