Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kinaff, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kinaff
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.89691, -8.97996
- SMR number
- MA071-142001-
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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
Roughly in the centre of a graveyard (MA071-142002-).
This church is depicted on the 1838 and 1931 OS 6-inch maps as a rectangular building (c. 14m E−W; 7m N−S), indicated as ‘in Ruins’ on the 1931 edition. The remains are reduced now to low wall footings (Wth 0.9m; H 0.4m), surviving to a height of 2-3 courses. The interior ground surface is uneven and stony underfoot. The W half of the church is engulfed in dense blackthorn scrub. Two sycamore trees grow at the E end.
A 12th-century date for the church is indicated by a carved sandstone block (MA071-142004-), originally a capital of a Romanesque doorway (pers. comm. Con Manning, 2009) which now serves as a gravemarker, set upright in the ground to SW of the church.
A souterrain (MA071-142003-) is located in an adjoining field c. 50m to SW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.