Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kilmurry More, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmurry More
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilmurry (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 54.07220, -9.35045
- SMR number
- MA038-049001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a graveyard (MA038-049002-).
On the 1838 OS 6-inch map a rectangular building, on a NNW–SSE axis, marked ‘Church in ruins’, is shown located in the centre of a polygonal graveyard. By the time of the 1922 edition the location is marked only as 'Kilmurry (Site of)'. In the 1838 OS Letters it was noted as 'the ruins of a small church dedicated to the Virgin Mary', but no further details were recorded (O'Flanagan 1927, 98-9 (49)).
No above ground evidence of the church survives. A prominent area of raised ground appears to mark its original location. A stone head (MA038-049003-), which most likely came from the church, is located in the graveyard.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 March 2018
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Mayo collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Stone headunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.