Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Bellgrove, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bellgrove
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of R. C. Chapel
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.24604, -6.64938
- SMR number
- WX046-020----
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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
Situated on a fairly level landscape and on the E side of a N-S minor road. It is also on the S side of a W-E farm lane that curves N just to the NW of the site. It is marked faintly on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a rectangular structure (dim. c. 10m N-S) where it is described as the site of an R C Chapel in italic lettering, with farm buildings c. 20m to the SE and SW. It may have been a Catholic chapel of the penal period, but there are no visible remains of a structure, enclosure or burial at ground level in an area that is densely overgrown.
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: 16 August, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.