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Church

Ballyara Or Falduff, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Ballyara Or Falduff, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyara Or Falduff
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
54.05185, -8.76395
SMR number
SL037-037001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on a N-facing slope overlooking a stream c. 70m to the N; on the W side of a graveyard (SL037-037002-). Fragmentary remains of a rectangular church (int. c. 18m E-W; 7m N-S). Only the W gable with short returns of the N and S walls (H c. 2m), and a short section of the E end of the S wall (H c. 1.2m), stand. Otherwise the lines of the N and S walls are defined by a scarped edge, and three large 19th-century grave-plots occupy the line of the E wall. The surviving walls (T 1.2m; max. H 2.5m) are built of coursed limestone blocks. The church is indicated as an L-shaped structure (20m E-W) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. The remains of a castle (SL037-039----) lie c. 200m to ENE.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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