Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Holywell Lower, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Holywell Lower
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Church (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.74652, -8.80357
- SMR number
- MA103-003001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Adjacent to a holy well (MA103-003002). There is no visible trace of a church indicated on the 1916 OS 6-inch maps as ‘St. Patrick’s Church (Site of)’. Another church (MA102-002001-), a graveyard (MA103-002002-) and children’s burial ground (MA103-002003-) are located 300m to NW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.