Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Bellahy, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bellahy
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.96792, -8.79427
- SMR number
- SL042-029001-
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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)
- 1857 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Not listed in either the SMR (1989) or RMP (1995). Indicated on the 1911 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a rectangular structure in the E side of a bastioned fort (SL042-029----). Grass-covered foundations remain of a rectangular stone-walled structure (14m NNE-SSW; 7m WNW-ESE). The walls are c. 0.4-1m in width and 0.2-0.3m in height. According to local information, this was the post-Penal church of Bellahy. The depiction on the 1911 map suggests an apse on the ESE end- wall. This is post-1700 AD in date but it is mentioned in the record for the bastioned fort (SL042-029----).
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC
Date of upload: 10 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Bastioned fortunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.