Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Castle-Erkin South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castle-Erkin South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of R.C. Chapel
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.59061, -8.43711
- SMR number
- LI014-086001-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Site of cruciform R. C. Chapel of post medieval date depicted on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map where it is shown standing outside the graveyard immediately to the S. No surface remains visible of this levelled church known locally as 'Kilmurry Chapel'. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books recorded the following; 'This chapel was thrown down and removed to the S. corner of Ballyvorneen, at the parish boundary of Ballybrood, where it was rebuilt' (OSNB).
Westropp (1904-5, 441) recorded that 'the modern R. C. church was built in 1820 on the old site'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 31 October 2018
References
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
Westropp, T.J. 1904-5 A survey of the ancient churches of Co. Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 25C, 327-479.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.