Church

The National Monuments Service's description

Located on a gentle E-facing slope. This is the parish church of Rossminoge within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 30m NE-SW; c. 25m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank, which has a fosse or ditch (Wth of top 5.5m; D 0.8m) inside it on the SE side. Only the W gable (L 6.7m; T 0.6m) of the church survives almost to the apex with a destroyed doorway in the centre. The body of the church appears as a sunken area (dim. 13m E-W). John O'Donovan, writing c. 1840, describes the S wall partly surviving, and a 'brick belfry' on the W gable (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 63). In the SW corner of graveyard is the ringed but unpierced and undecorated head of a large granite high cross (H 0.93m; Wth 0.84m; T c. 0.1m), but one of the arms is missing. It is standing upright in the socket of a granite base (dims 0.56m x 0.4m; H 0.25m plus).

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload/revision: 11 April, 2012

References

Hore, P.H. 1900-1911 (Reprint 1979) History of the town and county of Wexford, 6 vols. Dublin. Published by arrangement with W.A. Hennessy Esq.

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1933 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of County Wexford, collected during progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Typescript in 2 vols. Bray.