Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Church Island (lough Owel), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Church Island (lough Owel)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Dotted outline
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dotted outline
- Coordinates
- 53.56816, -7.37162
- SMR number
- WM012-167002-
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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 high ground at SE end of Church Island 7m W of the E shoreline at SE end of Lough Owel. Church Island lies 570m W of the shoreline with the townland of Ballynagall. The oval-shaped form of the graveyard (WM012-167001-) boundary wall S of St. Loman's oratory (WM012-067----) possibly indicates the presence of an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure (Swan 1988, 24). There are also indications of a low embankment of bank of earth & stone which may have acted as an enclosure around the perimeter of the island, but no definite facing stones or wall survive.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 13 October 2015
References
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.