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Church

Kerloge, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Kerloge, County Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kerloge
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Church (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Church (Site of)
Coordinates
52.31671, -6.45732
SMR number
WX042-006001-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1811 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated at the bottom of a SE-facing slope with the South Slob of Wexford Harbour c. 700m to the E. This is the parish church of Kerloge. It is described by Synnott writing c. 1680 as a former convent of the Knights Templar (Hore 1862, 67). It may be site of St Aloch's Church mentioned in a charter of Henry II in 1172 (Cullen 1895, 375-6), but this is disputed by Hore (1900-11, vol. 4, 262-3; 1906, vol. 5, 84). St. Aloch's church is probably at Templetown (WX049-008001-) in Shelbourne (Culleton 1999, 128; Colfer 2002, 196). The foundation course of a wall (L 14.4m) oriented N-S is thought to be the remains of the church, but the graveyard has been removed. An altar from the church (WX037-032046-) has been re-erected outside the Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption in Wexford town. St James' Well (WX042-006003-) is c. 10m S of the church wall. Archaeological monitoring (21E0154) by Y. Whitty of the line of a water pipe on the road c. 60-100m distant W-N produced no related material (Whitty 2021).

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: 27 May, 2013
Amended: 4 August 2021

References

Colfer, B. 2002 Arrogant trespass: Anglo-Norman Wexford 1169-1400. Enniscorthy, Duffry Press

Culleton, E. 1999 Celtic and Early Christian Wexford. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999.

Hore, H. F. 1862 Particulars relative to Wexford and the barony of Forth: by Colonel Solomon Richards, 1682. Journal of teh Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 7, 84-92.

Cullen, J.B. 1895 The ancient chruches of the town of Wexford, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 25, 369-77.

Whitty, Y. 2021 Final Monitoring Report, Watermain Scheme, Coolballow Road, Co. Wexford. Licence: 21E0154. Unpublished report, De Faoite Archaeology

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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