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Church

Ballysakeery, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Ballysakeery, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballysakeery
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Church in Ruins
Latest-edition OS map
Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
54.18647, -9.15641
SMR number
MA022-055001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In the N half of a graveyard (MA022-055002-).
Ruined rectangular medieval church (c. 7.5m N–S; c. 17.4m E–W) with mortared walls (T 0.9-1m) of roughly coursed, small and medium-sized stone blocks. The W gable survive to a height of c. 2m; there is a blocked-up doorway (Wth 1.1m; H c. 1.1m) at the S end, topped on its internal face by a stone lintel, above which is a shallow arch of voussoirs. Along the W half of the S wall sections of the inner wall face survive intact to a height of 1.7m, and remnants of a window are evident. The E half of the S wall, the N wall and the E gable are reduced to barely discernible, sod-covered wall footings (Wth 0.8m). The interior of the church appears slightly sunken relative to exterior ground level, and is strewn with grass-covered heaps of rubble.
There is a castle (MA022-054----) c. 50m to NW, and a rath (MA022-056----) c. 140m to E.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 2 May 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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