Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Cuslough Demesne, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cuslough Demesne
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Templenaleckagh in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Temple-na-Lecca (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.63208, -9.27329
- SMR number
- MA117-005001-
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
In NE corner of enclosed graveyard, ivy-clad remains of rectangular church (7.2m N-S; 14.9m E-W). Doorway W of centre in S wall has pointed arch, with four punch dressed stones, chamfered externally. Single light window at E end of S wall. W gable (H 5.3m) featureless. E gable contains single ogee-headed light in splayed embrasure with pointed arch. N wall contains three niches, 1.8m above ground level; one has opposite niche on S wall. Gravemakers in interior.
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. 613.
Date of upload: 5 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.