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Saintkierans, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Saintkierans, 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
Saintkierans
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
St. Kierans Church (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
St. Kierans Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.23095, -6.81655
SMR number
WX045-030001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

St. Kerane is listed as a chapel of Tintern in 1552 (Hore 1901-11, vol. 2, 92), and it probably served as a chapel-of-ease for the village of St. Keran, which is described amongst the possessions of Tintern abbey (WX045-027001-) at the Suppression in 1540 (ibid. vol. 2, 76). Saintkierans would have been a grange or outfarm of the abbey, which is c. 1.6km to the WNW. The church at Saintkierans is situated in a small fold at the bottom of a S-facing slope and just on the NW shore of Bannow Bay. It is visible as the grass covered foundations (Wth 0.9-1.1m; H c. 0.6-0.8m) of an E-W structure (ext. dims. 18.6m E-W; 7.1m N-S; int. dims 16.2m E-W; 5.15m N-S). It appears to be clay-bonded and the only entrance is a gap (Wth 1.7m) at the centre of the N side. There is a granite bullaun stone (dims 0.84m x 0.62m; H 0.55m) with a single oval basin (dims 0.5m x 0.28m; D 0.16m) within the church. There is no evidence of burial or of an enclosure but there is an old trackway visible as two low parallel earthen banks (ext. Wth 6.4m) running E-W (L c. 30m) just S of the church.

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: 23 July 2013

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