Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Enniscoffey Or Caran, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Enniscoffey Or Caran
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church
- Coordinates
- 53.45944, -7.26683
- SMR number
- WM026-100001-
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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
Polygonal shaped graveyard (WM026-100003-) enclosed by a post medieval stone wall with levelled 19th century Church of Ireland building located in N quadrant of graveyard. The ruins of Enniscoffey House are located 180m to ENE. In 1976 the levelled church site was described as following; ‘The church marked on the 1911 OS revision as standing has been completely demolished and only the grass-covered outline, with depression within now remains. It appears to have been a rather large estate church’ (SMR file 12/03/1976). There is no evidence to suggest that there was a medieval church inside this graveyard. In 1810 it was recorded that there was no church in the parish of Enniscoffey (Carlisle 1810). The Church of Ireland building was built in 1819 with a gift of £900 from the Board of First Fruits (Lewis 1837, 602). No church building or glebe land is depicted on the 1656-9 Down Survey map of Enniscoffey parish (NLI MS 723-4).
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 24 August 2015
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.
Carlisle, N. 1810 A topographical dictionary of Ireland. Printed for William Miller, Albemarle Street, by William Savage, Bedford Bury. London.
Lewis, S. 1837 A topographical dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. London. Lewis and Co.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.