Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Towerhill Demesne, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Towerhill Demesne
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72754, -9.20108
- SMR number
- MA100-152002-
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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
Annalists mention a church or cell, dedicated to St. Patrick, in use here as late as 1614 (AFM). Site now occupied by Tower Hill House.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 630.
Date of upload: 21 February 2013
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.