Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Urney, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Urney
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (Site of) Graveyard
- Coordinates
- 53.20537, -7.28449
- SMR number
- OF026-028001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Very fragmentary remains of a now featureless church in a much neglected walled graveyard. Only part of S face of N wall (max L c. 8m, max. H 2.50m) and small portion of base of W wall. Built with roughly course rubble limestone. Three rectangular shaped opes in N wall appear to be later insertions. (Comerford 1883, 195).
Very fragmentary remains of a church within a much neglected graveyard (OF026-028002-). Only part of the N wall (max. L c. 8m; max. H 2.5m) with its N face missing and a very small portion of the base of the W wall can be seen above ground level. Church is built with rubble limestone roughly coursed and the N wall has a line of three rectangular shaped opes (c. 0.3m by 0.4m) set at the same height. These appear to be later insertions. According to Comerford (1883, 195) small portion of E gable erected in the 19th-century. No other features visible. Square shaped graveyard with 18th/19th-century headstones enclosed by a stone wall.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.