Church

The National Monuments Service's description

The parish church of Kilteevan is situated on a gentle S-facing slope. It was impropriate to the abbey of Cloontuskert at the Suppression (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 49). Rectangular structure (int. dims 11.3m E-W; 6.3m N-S), of which only the E wall with an elaborate single-light (Wth 0.4m) cusped ogee-headed window (Leask 1943, 150-1) and an aumbry, and the N wall (H 3.25m) with a blocked and probably inserted window (Wth 0.5m; H 1.3m) towards its E end survive complete. The E end of the S wall with a simple light (H 1.2m) also survives, and the W wall (max. H 1.3m) is featureless. The church is at the N end of a raised oval graveyard (RO040-032002-) (dims c. 80m N-S; c. 56m E-W) defined by a stone-clad scarp (H 0.4m at N to 1.7m at S). The head of a cross, probably a finial cross, was found in the graveyard in 1989. (Ryan 1992; 1997, 227)

See the attached images of the E window from W (002) and E (001)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Leask, H.G. 1943b Kilteevan, Co. Roscommon. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 73, 150-51.

Ryan, H.A. 1992 An ecclesiastical site at Cloontogher, Kilteevan. Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 4, 45-7.

Ryan, H. A. 1997 Aspects of Kilteevan history. In H. A. Ryan (ed.) Kilteevan: A look at a school and its parish. 220-34, Kilteevan. Kilteevan School Board of Management

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.