Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Carrickbaggot, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickbaggot
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Chapel (in Ruins), Graveyard
- Coordinates
- 53.80673, -6.33054
- SMR number
- LH018-046001-
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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 limestone blocks, boulders and greywacke (int. dims. 13m E-W, 5m N-S). Double wall at W gable, the outer one being 0.5m thick and the inner one 0.7m. E window not extant and only foundation level of gable wall survives. E end of N wall has the remains of a splayed window which extends down close to ground level, and has a two-centred arch of greywacke with central keystone. The church is fifteenth- or sixteenth-century in date and the Visitation of 1692 states that it was in disrepair. (CLAJ 1919, 338; CLAJ 1944, 278).
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.