Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Churchpark, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchpark
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church in Ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.74816, -8.80766
- SMR number
- MA103-002001-
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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
Within a graveyard (MA103-002002-).
Ruined, rectangular stone-built church (16.75m E−W; c. 8.3m N−S) with walls reduced to sod-covered wall footings, except for a portion (L 5.5m; Wth 0.9m) of the S wall which stands to a height of 3.2m. The surviving length of wall is constructed of random rubble. The basal courses incorporate very large boulders resting on a shallow plinth (H 0.3m) of horizontally laid stones, which projects c. 0.3m from the base of the wall. There is a break, partly filled with loose rubble, towards the W end of the S wall, and a similar break roughly mid-way along the N wall. A children’s burial ground (MA103-002003-), consisting of a low rectangular platform, abuts the S wall of the church.
The S wall of the church is incorporated into the line of a later field wall, evident now as a single line of contiguous stones and boulders; this extends across the field to NW from the SW corner of the church, and also for a short distance to SSE from the SE angle of the church, where it borders the E side of the children’s burial ground. Another church (MA103-002001-) and a holy well (MA103-002002-) are located 300m to SE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.