Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Moorgagagh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moorgagagh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53905, -9.11383
- SMR number
- MA121-170----
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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 pasture, 120m W of abbey (MA121-154001-). Much-ruined subrectangular church (8m N-S; 18m E-W), defined for most part by collapsed sod-covered walls (H 0.8m; Wth 0.9m). Short portion of S wall, containing window (0.66m x 0.7m), reaches a height of 3.1m. Low stone wall, N to S, divides interior in two, larger part to E.
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. 626.
Attached images:
MA121-170----_01.JPG Viewed from E
MA121-170----_02.JPG Viewed from SE
MA121-170----_03.JPG S wall, exterior viewed from S
MA121-170----_04.JPG S wall, interior viewed from N
MA121-170----_05.JPG Viewed from W
Date of upload: 16 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regularunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.