Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Rathgillen, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathgillen
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Killaruggle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicateed
- Coordinates
- 53.84488, -6.74064
- SMR number
- ME006-061----
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
Situated on a level, low-lying landscape in a part of Rathgillen townland called Killaruggle on the 1908 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A church associated with St. Patrick at Killaruggle is recorded in the folk record and there was thought to be a well and a cross-inscribed stone there (IFC: Schools’ Collection vol. 712, 256), for which see this web-page accessed on 18/10/2018: https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes A rectangular overgrown structure with walls that are almost complete (T 0.6m) except the N wall is largely missing is regarded locally as a Penal church.. There are no architectural features present and there is no evidence of an enclosure or burials associated with it.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload; 30 October, 2018
Nearby in the register
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.