Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Tearmann Caithreach, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tearmann Caithreach
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 54.24668, -10.06392
- SMR number
- MA009-007001-
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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
Located on elevated ground, densely covered in graves, in a graveyard (MA009-007002-).
This is the approximate location of a church, which is indicated on the 1838 and 1921 OS 6-inch maps as 'Church' and 'Church (in Ruins)', respectively, and which according to tradition stood at the highest point of the graveyard. There are now no visible remains of the church, but remnants were still visible in the late 19th century, when Westropp (1912, 211-212) noted that ‘Parts of the half-levelled north wall of the church, 3 feet to 5 feet high, remain on a sandy hillock; some blocks of a late fifteenth-century window, with an ogee head [MA009-007003-] and fragments of two (or three) stoups, or basins [MA009-007004-], lie among the graves.’
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 September 2017
References
Westropp, T.J. 1912 The promontory forts and early remains of the coasts of county Mayo. Part 1. The North Coast (Tirawley and Erris) (continued) Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 42, no. 2, 101-139.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.