Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Billa, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Billa
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Fechins Church (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 54.17558, -8.55533
- SMR number
- SL026-011001-
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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, bordered on the SE side by a road. A roughly trapezoidal-shaped area (18.5m E-W; 10.5m N-S at W end, 4.7m at E end) defined by a scarp (H 0.6m) except on the SE side where it is fringed by the roadside field boundary. The entire platform is grass-covered and though stones protrude randomly from the scarp, no masonry or wall structure is apparent. Its surface is generally level but uneven. On the N side, the scarp drops 0.4m down to a low triangular terrace (5.5m N-S; c. 4-5m E-W), the N corner of which incorporates a sod-covered cairn of loose stones (diam. c. 3m; H 1.2m). Embedded in the terrace is a saint's stone known as 'St Fechin's Bed' (SL026-011002-). There is a holy well (SL026-010----) c. 200m to the N.
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
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.