Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballinchalla, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinchalla
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ballinchalla Church in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killower Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.59620, -9.28398
- SMR number
- MA117-026001-
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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 graveyard, ruins of medieval rectangular church (5.1m N-S; 12.8m E-W). Ivy-clad E gable and N and S walls stand to near full height. Entrance at W end of S wall; with box-like piscina at E end. N wall (H 2.6 m) contains single headed ogee window at E end. E gable contains twin light headed ogee window. Some modern headstones in church interior. Known locally, and shown on 1838 OS map as Ballinchalla Church. In ruins by 1606 (Neary 1938,49).
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. 601.
Date of upload: 6 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.