Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballymacgibbon North, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacgibbon North
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Killursagh Church in Ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killursagh Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.53700, -9.23001
- SMR number
- MA121-137001-
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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
Church in E end of rectangular stone enclosure (23m N-S; 50m E-W). Poorly preserved ruins of rectangular church (6.3m N-S; 5.6m E-W); E wall survives to max. H 1.8 m; short returns of N and S walls, otherwise walls collapsed. Contained round arched E window, now missing (Wilde 1872, 155).
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. 603.
Date of upload: 13 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.