Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kilrodane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilrodane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Kilrodane Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilrodane Church (site of) (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.48109, -9.06404
- SMR number
- LI028-131001-
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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
No visible surface trace of church within levelled graveyard (LI028-131002-). Dedicated to St Rodan; no vestige of site in 1840 (OSL vol. 1, 24). Described in the Ordnance Survey Letters as 'there was a little church and burial ground dedicated to St. Rodan, but both have been destroyed and the spot which they occupied is now part of a meadow' (ibid.).
Westropp (1904-5, 402) recorded the following details on Kilrodane; ‘Kilrodan, with New Grange, 1349 (Close R.); Kilvidane, 1657 (D.S.B. 7). Site - The church and graveyard are now levelled'.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 08 January 2019
References
OSL - Ordnance Survey Letters. Letters written by members of the Ordnance Survey's 'Topographical Department' (T. O'Conor, A. O'Curry, E. Curry, J. O'Donovan and P. O'Keeffe) sent to headquarters from the field (1834-41). MSS in Royal Irish Academy.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.