Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Coolfore, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolfore
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75241, -6.42625
- SMR number
- LH021-039----
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
Reference by Rev. L. P. Murray (1935, 233) to 'an old thatched chapel at Coolfore' during Penal times. Field inspection carried out by ASI in 1965 noted that a local woman was told by her great grandmother of its existence, but the precise location is not known.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 17 July 2012
References
Murray, L. P. 1935 The last Abbot of Mellifont. In County Louth in Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. 8 (3), 223-234
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.