Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Cruicetown (kells Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cruicetown (kells Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- R.C. Chapel
- Latest-edition OS map
- R.C. Chapel (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.80762, -6.78056
- SMR number
- ME005-095----
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Depicted as a rectangular building (dims c. 15m E-W; c. 5m N-S) and described in italic lettering as 'R. C. Chapel' on the 1836 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and described as 'R. C. Chapel (in Ruins)' on the OS 25-inch plan (surveyed 1908). It was one of two churches in the post-penal Catholic union of Nobber, and was described as a plain building (Lewis 1837, 1, 439). It is situated on a shelf on a NE-facing slope c. 5-10m S of a minor E-W road. The church (int. dims 13.4m E-W; 4.9m N-S) is reduced to the grass-covered foundations of walls (Wth 0.5m; H 0.2-0.5m) in a small plot with some mature coniferous trees. Archaeological testing (06E0245) by B. Halpin immediately to the E produced no related material (excavatioins.ie 2006:1542).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 28 January, 2016
Amended: 29 January 2021
References
Lewis, S. 1837 A topographical dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. London. Lewis and Co.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.