Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kilcormick, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcormick
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.52931, -6.42401
- SMR number
- WX021-010001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located towards the bottom of the W-facing slope of an E-W ridge, with a SE-NW stream c. 150m to the SW. The parish church of Kilcormick is within a neglected subcircular graveyard (dims. 61m N–S; 55m E–W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.2-1.5m).According to a Visitation by Thomas Ram, the Protestant bishop of Ferns, in 1615 the rectorship was vacant, John Lacy was the curate, and the church and chancel were in repair (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 272). The foundations of the N and S wails of a building oriented E–W (L c. 20m; Wth c. 6.5m) are visible. The site of St Cormick's Well (WX021-011----), at which patterns were still celebrated on 22nd June in 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 94) is c. 500m to the SE.
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: 15 June, 2012
Amended: 4 Sep. 2013
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.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.