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Church

Killukin (Roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Killukin, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Killukin (Roscommon By.)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Church
Latest-edition OS map
Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.75117, -8.17664
SMR number
RO028-108001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Towards the top of the gentle W-facing slope of a drumlin overlooking Ardakillin Lough c. 350m to NW. This is the parish church of Killukin, the identity of which in the ecclesiastical taxation of Pope Nicholas IV in 1306 is not clear (Cal. doc. Ire., vol. 5, 223). It is a rectangular structure (ext. dims 18.1m E-W; 8.6m N-S) defined by the W wall (H 3.2m; T 0.9m) with good quoins at the SW angle but no other features, and the basal courses of the other walls (H 0.5-0.8m). It is within a D-shaped grass-covered enclosure (RO028-108002-) (dims 50m N-S; 49m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.2-1m) with the straight side at N. There is no evidence of burial, and the perimeter at E is overlain by a N-S field wall. A rectangular limestone block (RO028-108003-) (dims 0.32m x 0.25m; L 0.44m) with a carved face at one end (Siggins 1990, 45) is now in Strokestown Heritage Centre (RO029-012----).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 9 November 2018

References

Cal. doc. Ire. - Calendar of documents relating to Ireland 1171-1307, ed. H.S. Sweetman (5 vols., London, 1875-86).

Siggins, A. 1990 Heads and tails of stone. Journal of the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 3, 45-8.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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