Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Cartron (Gallen By., Killeden Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron (Gallen By., Killeden Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilkevna Church in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilkevna Church (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.86180, -9.00587
- SMR number
- MA080-009----
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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 pasture, located on a ridge with extensive views, especially westwards. Ground falls away to E, and 50m to S of the church ground falls into a valley.
This church is shown as a rectangular building on the 1838 OS 6-inch map where it is named ‘Kilchenagh in ruins’, with a circular quarry pit shown immediately to S; on later map editions the location is marked with the symbol for a removed antiquity and it is named ‘Killkevna Church (site of)’.
There are extant remains of the church. These take the form of sod-covered wall footings (Wth c. 1m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.4-0.6m) which outline a slightly raised rectangular area (7.5m N−S; 11.5m E−W), oriented E−W. The building appears to be constructed on a slight platform or rise, defined at W by slight scarp, but there is no definitive trace of an enclosure or graveyard.
A quarry pit (35-40m NW−SE; c. 20m NE−SW; D 1-1.5m) is located 5m to SW of the church. At the SE edge of the pit are the remnants of a possible limekiln and at the NW edge is the ruin of a small stone-built shed. Smaller areas of quarrying can be seen a few meters N and NE of the church.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.