Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Coolatoor, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolatoor
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ancient Chapel (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.43922, -7.63728
- SMR number
- WM031-014001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 the W facing slope of Knockastia, in scrub. Holy well, (WM031-014002-) annotated ‘Toberavill’ lies c. 45m to WSW. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a rectangular-shaped building (approx. dims. 10m NE-SW; 6m NW-SE) annotated ‘Ancient Chapel (in Ruins)’. Monument described in 1957 as not located due to dense cover of scrub. Monument is obscured today by dense cover of scrub on Digital Globe aerial photography and is located at the E edge of a quarry.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 12 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.