Church

The National Monuments Service's description

On a terrace of rock-outcrop, and probably an early ecclesiastical site. Visible in 1995 as a D-shaped grass-covered ecclesiastical enclosure (RO006-083004-) (dims 27.5m E-W; 22.5m N-S) defined by the edge of the outcrop N-E (max. H 3m) and an earthen bank (Wth 4m; H 0.3-0.7m) elsewhere. The foundations of a mortared stone wall, presumably of a church, and burials (RO006-083002-) were found in the course of an excavation in 1989 for the Boyle by-pass (O'Riordain 1990a, 45). A further 17 inhumations were recovered S of the ecclesiastical enclosure, when it was determined that the burials extended further W, but not E under the by-pass road (Channing 1994c). Souterrain (RO006-083005-) is at the W side of the ecclesiastical enclosure and the holy well (RO006-083003-) is just to the N. It is within the field system (RO006-083006-), and cashel (RO006-083007-) is c. 200m to the E. (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1,108; D'alton 1845, 72-5)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1931 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Roscommon collected during the progress of the
Ordnance Survey in 1837. Bray.

Ó Ríordáin, B. 1990b 'Templenadriney', Erris Church (site of); burial ground; habitation. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1989: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 45, No. 81. Bray. Wordwell.

Channing, J. 1994c 'Templedriney Church', Erris Church and enclosure. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1993: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 70, No. 195. Bray. Wordwell.

D'Alton, J. 1845 The history of Ireland: from the earliest period to the year 1245. 2 vol. Dublin, Author.