Church

The National Monuments Service's description

The parish church of Kildalog, listed as Kildlog in the ecclesiastical taxation of Elphin in 1306 (Cal. doc. Ire., vol. 5, 223), and situated on a level low-lying landscape. Rectangular structure (ext. dims 14.6m E-W; 7.4m N-S) defined by roughly coursed limestone rubble core walls (T 0.9m) which survives complete (H of S wall 3.1m) with good quoins, except the W end of the S wall and the N wall which are reduced to the foundations. The re-built pointed doorway (Wth 0.87m; H 1.6m) with external chamfer in the W gable has a plain rectangular window with external chamfer overhead, and the E gable has a two-light cusped ogee-headed window with square hood moulding and decorated spandrels, but the centre of the head and the mullion are missing. It is within a subcircular enclosure (RO023-177002-) (dims 30.6m E-W; 27.4m N-S) planted with trees and defined by a grass-covered wall footing (Wth 0.8m) SE-SW and a scarp (H 0.4m) elsewhere, but there is no evidence of burial. (O'Connell 2000)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

O'Connell, M. 2000 Urney Church. Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society, vol. 8, 140.