Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Streamstown (Leyny By., Ballysadare West ED), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Streamstown (Leyny By., Ballysadare West ED)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kildalough Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 54.21137, -8.55932
- SMR number
- SL020-135001-
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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
In level pasture. The ruin of a rectangular church (int. 12m E-W; 5.3m N-S) built of roughly coursed stonework, the walls (T c. 1m) of which are much reduced in height. Internally a short section of a cross-wall (H 0.3m; Wth 0.7m) extends 0.6m from the S wall, just W of the centre. The church was better preserved when described by O'Rorke (1878, 278-81), who noted an E window 'three feet [0.91m] high, the opening to the outside seeming to have been only four inches [0.1m], but with a splay on the inside of five or six feet [1.52-1.82m]'. He also described a window in the S wall with a square-headed light 'four inches [0.1m] wide to outside, but splayed internally to three feet [0.91m]'. The church was known as Kildalough church (O'Rorke [1889], vol. 2, 336-8). There is a possible graveyard (SL020-135002-) to the E.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.