Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Relick (longworth), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Relick (longworth)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.56052, -7.60421
- SMR number
- WM017-005----
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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
Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular church standing in the centre of a rectangular shaped graveyard (WM017-005003-). The rectangular-shaped graveyard is enclosed by a post-1700 wall with remains of a relatively modern church standing in the centre of the graveyard. The graveyard contains many relatively modern tombstones. Immediately inside the graveyard wall there are the remains of a curving earthen bank which forms a circular enclosure around the church and may be the remains of an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure (WM017-005001-). The only other possibly early feature is a crossslab (WM017-005002-).
The terrier of the 1654-7 Down Survey map of Piercetowne parish recorded that 'on Relicke stands the ruins of a church' (NLI, MS 723-4).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 February 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.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.