Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Killadoughran, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killadoughran
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62632, -7.13795
- SMR number
- WM008-090002-
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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 on a low hillock in undulating grassland with good views. Lough Nacarrick and castle (WM009-091---) 100m NNE and 240m NE respectively. Ringfort (WM008-89----) and glebe land of church 190m to SW. Possible ecclesiastical enclosure identified by Swan (1988, 11) who recorded that there was evidence of a possible enclosure in the semi-circular form of the boundary wall of the graveyard (WM008-090001-). Medieval church ruins (WM008-090----) stand in S quadrant of graveyard.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 20 August 2015
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Swan, D.L. 1988 The Early Christian ecclesiastical sites of County Westmeath. In J. Bradley (ed.), Settlement and society in Medieval Ireland: studies presented to F.X. Martin O.S.A., 1-31. Kilkenny. Boethius Press.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.