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In undulating marshy terrain, on the N side of a road, in the NW corner of Kilross graveyard (SL021-056002-). Only the SW corner of the church stands (int. 4.95m E-W; 2.8m N-S). This is built of mortared roughly coursed limestone. Along the internal face of the W wall is the springing line of a wicker-centred vault…

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In undulating marshy terrain, on the N side of a road, in the NW corner of Kilross graveyard (SL021-056002-). Only the SW corner of the church stands (int. 4.95m E-W; 2.8m N-S). This is built of mortared roughly coursed limestone. Along the internal face of the W wall is the springing line of a wicker-centred vault which covered a ground-floor apartment at the W end of the church. A window lighting this area survives in the S wall, and has a splayed and lintelled embrasure and a single flat-headed light. At first-floor level part of W side of another window embrasure survives. This is the remains of the late medieval parish church of Kilross (O'Rorke [1889], vol. 2, 247; M. A. Timoney 2002b, 57). A road (SL021-057----) lies c. 100m to the S. In 1836 'two holy water pots (fonts)' (SL021-055001-, SL021-055002-) were recorded in this townland (OSNB vol. 2, 246); these were probably the two 'Fonts' indicated and named on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, c. 80m to the W. This area is covered with scrub overgrowth and these features could not be located. Attached images: SL021-056001-_01.JPG SW corner -exterior SL021-056001-_02.JPG Interior -showing window and wicker-centred vault, viewed from NE Date of upload: 18 January 2008

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL021-056001

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