Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kiltrustan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltrustan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.81606, -8.10378
- SMR number
- RO023-078001-
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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
On the S-facing slope of a slight NW-SE ridge. Traditionally thought to be one of three churches founded by St. Patrick in the Trí Tuatha (O'Flanagan 1931, 33). This is the medieval parish church of Kiltrustan where a functioning Roman Catholic church was situated in the early 19th century (1837 OS 6-inch map). Slight remnants of a structure (int. dims 16m E-W; 6.8m N-S) defined by the W gable (T 1.05m) with a robbed window, and the N end of the E wall survive. Fragments of the N (L 12m; T 1.7m) and S walls (L 5m) survive as foundations. It is within a rectangular graveyard (RO023-078002-) (dims 70m NE-SW; 55m NW-SE) defined by masonry walls. Rath (RO023-079001-) is c. 180m to the NNE.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.