Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Drumcatton, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumcatton
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- R. C. Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- R. C. Church
- Coordinates
- 54.01205, -6.63235
- SMR number
- MO028-134001-
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 in a low-lying landscape. It is depicted as a rectangular structure on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic lettering as ‘R. C. Church.’ This is a post-penal Roman Catholic church which was renovated in 1891 but which is now closed. It is in a subtriangular graveyard (dims c. 45-75m E-W; c. 40m N-S) extending E from a NW-SE road, and is defined by masonry walls. It has rather few headstones dating largely from the nineteenth century. There is no evidence that there was a mass-rock here (Ó Gallachair 1957, 119).
Date of revised upload: 12 December 2017
References
Ó Gallachair, P. 1957 Clogher's Altars of the Penal Days. A Survey. Clogher Record 2, 97-130.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.