Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballymooney, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymooney
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.05386, -6.58591
- SMR number
- WI015-029001-
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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
Situated in the N portion of a hollowed-out cairn (WI015-029002-) on the summit of Church Mountain. The foundations of a building (dims. 10.5m E-W; 7m N-S) containing some roughly dressed granite blocks, traditionally the site of a church and named as such on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. Some cut stone, possibly from a door or window, is reputed to have been removed from the site. The cairn was hollowed out forming a roughly circular enclosure and there is some indication that edge of the cairn was at one stage structured to form a bank (Wth c. 5m). There is a well known as 'St Gad's Well' (WI015-029003-) excavated into the cairn at the W.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.