Chapel

The National Monuments Service's description

Larkin's map of 1808 shows a ruin in the graveyard (WM014-009---) of Crowinstown Great (SMR file). The terrier of the Down Survey map of Castletown parish recorded that in 'Crowinstown there is the walls of a chappell of ease with a Corn Mill [WM014-011----] in repaire' (NLI Ms 723-4).
Present remains consist of a small semi-circular shaped graveyard enclosed from S-W, N & NNE by the remains of a low bank set on a scarp with a shallow external fosse at its foot. From NNE-E-S the graveyard is bounded by a stone wall with the roadway beyond it. In the N quadrant of the graveyard there is a scatter of stones, however there is no definite trace of wall footing of a possible chapel visible on the surface. The surrounding field has been under tillage & there is no trace of any earthworks here’ (ASI Field Report 28/10/1980).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 27 August 2018

References

NLI, MS 723-4 - National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey for the County of Westmeath, attested by W. Petty, in 1659. Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 67 maps with accompanying terriers in two volumes, 1786-7. Dublin.