Religious house - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on N-facing slope. Site marked as rectangular structure on 1924 OS 6-inch map now reduced to sod-covered mound (18m E-W; 10.6m N-S), roughly rectangular in plan except for D-shaped 'bite' near W end of N side; latter area used as dump for field-clearance stones. Western end (max. H 1.05m) higher than E end (H 0.6m). Line of six stones (L 3.1m) along top edge of mound, near E end of S side, may be remains of wall face. There are no records of a religious foundation here (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 366). Westropp (1904-5) noted tradition that majority of building fell 'in the gale on Little Christmas night, 1839'; in his time the remains consisted of '15 feet of the west end and 32 feet of the south wall, with a door, 4 feet wide, and a recess for a stoup. The foundations are 70 feet long, externally; the breadth not measurable. Other foundations run to the north and east, and form an enclosure, 115 feet by 60 feet, and extend for 50 feet to the north of the west fragments.'
Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 26 August 2011