Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Rocksborough South, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rocksborough South
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church
- Coordinates
- 53.66143, -9.22144
- SMR number
- MA110-043----
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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
In level pasture, poorly preserved ruins of rectangular church (5.7m N-S; 11.5m E-W), built with roughly coursed limestone; missing S wall; surviving portions of N and E walls in poor condition. W gable (H 4.8m) contains blocked up window. No trace of doorway or associated grave markers.
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. 629.
Date of upload: 28 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 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.