Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Glenglass, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenglass
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killeen (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.50675, -6.73549
- SMR number
- WX018-029001-
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Marked only on 1925 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a 'Killeen'. John O'Donovan writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 102) records that a small church and graveyard once existed at Glenglass. It may have continued as a Catholic chapel into the Penal era (Codd 2005, 39). The church site is thought to be a slightly raised area (dims. c. 10m NW–SE; c. 6m NE–SW). St Anne's Well, now covered in, is c. 30m to the SW and the graveyard site (WX019-016----) is c. 130m to the ESE.
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: 22 May, 2012
References
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.
Codd, M. 2004 The sudden demise of an ancient parish. The Past No. 25, 39-44.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.