Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Killure, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killure
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.04553, -8.89019
- SMR number
- SL036-033003-
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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
Within a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (SL036-033002-). Standing on a low D-shaped sod-covered mound (H c. 1m; 13.5m N-S; 12.4m E-W) are fragmentary remains of a rectangular church (int. dims. 6.7m E-W; 4.4m N-S). Surviving sections of walling stand to c. 0.7m high but no doorway or window features are evident. The mound, which is indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map, is likely to be made up of rubble fallen from the church. Recorded in 1836 as the 'remains of an old nunnery' (OSNB vol. 2, 164), but no such foundation is listed by Gwynn and Hadcock (1970). The site of a graveyard (SL037-021----) lies immediately to the E. No remains are evident of the 'Children's Burial Ground' (SL036-033001-) marked at this location on the 1914 OS 6-inch map.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.