Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballymakenny, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymakenny
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Nicholas Ch.
- Coordinates
- 53.76345, -6.34423
- SMR number
- LH021-038001-
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
Church in ruins indicated on Taylor and Skinner's map (1777). Present structure built in 1782 on site of earlier church (Davies 1944, 277).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 17 July 2012
References
Davies, O. 1944 Old Churches in County Louth (Continued). County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 10 (3), 277-296.
Andrews, J.H. (ed.) 1969 Maps of the roads of Ireland. Shannon. Irish University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Stone headunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.