Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kilmacowen, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacowen
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilmacowen Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 54.23221, -8.51903
- SMR number
- SL020-054001-
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in the W half of a graveyard (SL020-054002-). Comprises a ruined rectangular church (int. L 21m, int. W 7m) constructed of split stone rubble masonry with extensive use of pinnings. A short section of the N wall survives at the NE angle. The E gable is intact and has a pointed light of sandstone set in an embrasure with a segmented rear arch which has the negative remains of wattles in the plaster on its underside. There is a recess or aumbry at ground level towards the S end of E gable. Projecting from the exterior face of the gable, adjacent to the window, is a carved sandstone human head (max. dim. c. 15cm). The facial features are greatly eroded. The S wall has an embrasure with a partly destroyed light near the E end, with a square recess or aumbry beneath it. There is a large break in the middle of the S wall. A hint of an inward splay at the edge of the break suggests that there was a second window embrasure here. Towards the W end of the wall there is a blocked-up doorway with a pointed arch. The W gable is missing.
Compiled by : Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 14 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.