Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kiltullagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltullagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kiltullagh Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kiltullagh Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.71286, -8.70778
- SMR number
- RO032-002001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The parish church of Kiltullagh is listed as Keltullagh in the ecclesiastical taxation of Tuam diocese in 1306 (Cal. doc. Ire., vol. 5, 228) and is unlikely ever to have been a Franciscan friary (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 279). It is situated at the crest of a severe SE-facing slope of Kiltullagh Hill overlooking a valley to the E and S, and with higher ground to the NW.
The church is a rectangular structure (int. dims 16.5m ENE-WSW; 6.5m NNW-SSE) of which only the E and S (H 3.2m) walls survive complete together with the foundations of the other walls (T 0.9m). A pointed doorway (Wth 1.38m; H 2.3m) with a hanging eye on the W side is situated towards the W end of the S wall, while a rectangular light is towards its E end. A round-headed window (Wth 0.18m; H 1.08m) is not centrally placed in the E gable which has an aumbry at its S side. The church is within a rectangular graveyard (RO032-002002-) (dims 58m NE-SW; 38m NW-SE) defined by masonry walls. John O'Donovan writing c. 1837 recorded two round stones (RO032-002005-; RO032-002006-) on the graves of priests (O'Flanagan 1931 vol. 1, 65) but these are no longer present.
The W angle of the graveyard overlies a raised platform partly outside the graveyard, which on excavation (00E0322) revealed the walls (T 1.2m; H 1-1.5m) of a building (RO032-002007-) (ext. dims 18m E-W; 7.5m N-S) which may have been an earlier church (Gregory 2002). Field system (RO032-002004-) surrounds the graveyard.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gregory, R.A. 2002 Kiltullagh church, Kiltullagh. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 293, No. 858. Bray. Wordwell.
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Cal. doc. Ire. - Calendar of documents relating to Ireland 1171-1307, ed. H.S. Sweetman (5 vols., London, 1875-86).
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
- Cursing stoneunder 1 mi
- Cursing stoneunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.