Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kilcolman, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcolman
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilcolman Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilcolman Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.90654, -8.56133
- SMR number
- RO008-021002-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The parish church of Kilcolman, listed as Keilcalman in the ecclesiastical taxation of Achonry in 1306 (Cal. doc. Ire. vol. 5, 219). Situated on a shelf of a gentle S-facing slope. Rectangular structure (int. dims 17m E-W; 5.5m N-S) of which most of the N wall is reduced to the foundations and the other ivy-clad walls (T 0.85m; H 0.6m at E to 2m at W) have no architectural features. It is within rath (RO008-021001-), which is now a graveyard (RO008-021003-). Kilcolman castle (RO008-020----) is c. 130m to the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Cal. doc. Ire. - Calendar of documents relating to Ireland 1171-1307, ed. H.S. Sweetman (5 vols., London, 1875-86).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.