Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kilnamanagh (frenchpark By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilnamanagh (frenchpark By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilnamanagh Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.89449, -8.39863
- SMR number
- RO009-056001-
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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 Kilnamanagh, listed as Killinamanach in the ecclesiastical taxation of Elphin in 1306 (Cal. doc. Ire., vol. 5, 224), is situated on a low E-W ridge. The conserved foundations of the E wall (L 7m; Wth 0.7m) of the church abut the N wall of the rectangular graveyard (RO009-056002-) (dims 50m WNW-ESE; 19.4m NNE-SSE) which has been extended (dims c. 35m E-W; c. 20m N-S) to the S. There is a crude stoup (RO009-055003-) or spud-stone (dims 0.3m x 0.23m; H 0.18m) with a small basin (diam. 0.1m; D 0.06m) incorporated into the graveyard wall inside the gate at N. The site of St Patrick's well (RO009-055----) is c. 150m to the NE. Archaeological testing (07E0767) during 2007 immediately to the NE on the other side of an E-W road failed to produce any related material (Read 2010b).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Read, C. 2010b Kilnamanagh: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 413, No. 1496. Dublin. Wordwell.
Cal. doc. Ire. - Calendar of documents relating to Ireland 1171-1307, ed. H.S. Sweetman (5 vols., London, 1875-86).
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.