Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballydawley, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydawley
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.20041, -8.45380
- SMR number
- SL020-171001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on a low ridge; in a graveyard (SL020-171002-), within the SE quadrant of an ecclesiastical enclosure (SL020-17103-). There are no visible remains of the church which was noted in 1836 as 'an old church in ruins, near Killross old Church, called Killeran Graveyard.' (OSL, 256). According to O'Rorke ([1889], vol. 2, 247), 'The place called Kilellin at Ballygawley … contained a church, which preceded in time that of Kilross'. A stone head (SL020-171007-) and a rectangular stone basin from this site are in the NMI (pers. comm. M. A. Timoney).
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
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone headunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.