Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballyara Or Falduff, County Sligo, Ireland
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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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 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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.