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Knockagarraun, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Knockagarraun, 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
Knockagarraun
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Templemore
Latest-edition OS map
Templemore (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.92365, -9.12827
SMR number
MA070-068001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: 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 NW corner of a graveyard (MA070-068002-) on a gentle E-facing pasture slope c. 200m E of the N-flowing Strade River. According to the Ordnance Survey Letters for Co. Mayo (1838, 361 (148)), ‘… part of the south wall is still to be seen with the traces of a window in it’. A very poorly preserved and heavily overgrown rectangular structure is orientated E-W (L c. 30m; Wth c. 10m). Its N wall and part of the W wall, both masked by vegetation, now form the limits of the associated graveyard (MA070-068002-). The SE corner survives formed by a low short length (H 1.15m; L 3m; T 1.25m) of upstanding E gable wall, with the rest of the wall traceable as a grassed-over foundation line running N, and a slightly longer section (L 8.3m; T 1.18m; max H 2.4m) of the adjoining S sidewall. The walls are constructed of roughly coursed undressed stone and smaller packing stones in a pebbled mortar. At current internal ground level, an alcove (H 0.3m; Wth 0.5m; D 0.55m) survives near the E end of the S wall. The interior is choked with vegetation. Strade Dominican Friary (MA070-067001-) stands c. 225m to the S.

Date of visit: 27-9-2025

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Nearby in the register

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

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