Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kilduffahoo, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilduffahoo
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kyle-Dhe-Dahoo (in Ruins)(1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.64353, -8.30214
- SMR number
- LI015-008001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated immediately E of a public road and S of a deserted farmyard, on a S-facing slope in rolling pasture. Medieval church ruins of Dubh Dhá Thuath stands in the centre of Kilduffahoo (Chill Dubh Dhá Thuath) graveyard (LI015-008002-) which was mainly used as a children's burial ground. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded that this building was the remains of a friary church. The S half of the E gable remains upstanding while the lower courses of the N and S walls survive with wall footings of the W gable. Church ruins standing inside woodland area covered in scrub and ivy making detailed examination of the remains impossible. Graveyard are mainly used as a children's burial ground located immediately S of church.
Church ruins described in 1840 as following; 'This is the ruins of a Friary, about 60 feet [18.2m] long and 24 feet [7.3m] wide, with a portion of the walls 4 feet [1.2m] high. Attached to it is a small burial ground, on an eminence about 1 chain [20m] in diameter, used now chiefly for the interments of children' (OSNB, Doon parish, Book 2, 603).
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.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.