Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballykelly (Forth By.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballykelly (Forth By.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- RC Chapel
- Latest-edition OS map
- RC Chapel (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 52.27929, -6.46016
- SMR number
- WX042-033001-
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 on a slight E-facing slope and on the S side of a minor E-W road. The Roman Catholic church of Ballykelly that was known as Kilmacree, was built in 1797 on land donated by Jacob Poole, and it closed in 1858.The remains consist of a rectangular structure (ext. dims. 17.05m E-W; 6.96m N-S) with the walls reduced in height (Wth 0.6-0.65m; H 1.2m), except the N wall which is incorporated into a handball alley. A pointed doorway in red brick in the N wall of the church communicates with the handball alley, and two memorials dating from 1798 and 1824 are incorporated into the outer face of the N church wall. The rectangular granite font (ext. dims 0.64m x 0.6m; H 0.41m; int. dims 0.43m x 0.42m; D c. 0.3m) from Kilmacree church (WX042-032001-), c. 600m to the S, is now at this church. (Hore 1925, 12 13)
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: 24 May, 2013
References
Hore, P. H. 1925 The barony of Forth. Part 3. The Past, vol. 3, 9-40.
Nearby in the register
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.