Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Churchtown (moygoish By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchtown (moygoish By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58384, -7.57636
- SMR number
- WM010-012002-
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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 knoll or hillock in the NE corner of a field. Poorly preserved ivy-clad ruins of a long church (WM010-012----) standing in the centre of an oval-shaped graveyard (WM010-012001-) defined by a stone wall (H 1m) of modern appearance. Curving graveyard wall from S to SW appears to be built on top of a low earth and stone bank, which appears to be the remains of an earlier graveyard boundary. In the fields to the W and SW there is a noticeably curving field fence this may indicate the line of an original ecclesiastical enclosure. The field fence is an earthen bank covered by trees and bushes. It ends where it runs into a farmyard to S. There are no indications of the circuit continuing in the fields to E of the church. Low field banks or linear earthworks in the adjoining field to SW appear to be post-1700 in date.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 3 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.