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Church

Ballybrogan, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Ballybrogan, 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
Ballybrogan
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Kilcommon Church
Latest-edition OS map
Kilcommon Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.52544, -8.02559
SMR number
RO045-116001-

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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

Listed as Kilcimacan in the ecclesiastical taxation of Elphin in 1306 (Cal. doc. Ire. vol. 5, 224) and situated on the crest at the S end of a low NW-SE spur. The church is a rectangular structure (ext. dims 10.85m E-W; 6.3m N-S) whose W wall, with the doorway and N wall hardly survive. There are 12th-century round-headed windows in the E wall and towards the E end of the S wall. A tomb inside the church which is blocking the E window re-uses a graveslab (RO045-116003-) (L 2m; Wth 1.05; T 0.15m) of Patricia (?) and Column Kelly of Creggan with a Latin inscription and a date of 1685. The slab is incised with a simple cross which has a calvary and fleur-de-lis terminals. The church is within a diamond-shaped graveyard (RO045-116002-) (dims c. 70m E-W; c. 35m N-S) defined by a masonry wall. Enclsoure (RO045-115----) is immediately to the N. (Dunnigan 2009)

See the attached view of the E window (001) and general view from the SE (002)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

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

Dunnigan, D. 2009 Kilcommon medieval church and graveyard, St. John's parish, Co. Roscommon. Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 11, 72-6.

Nearby in the register

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

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