Church in Balla, County Mayo

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What is recorded here

In Balla village, located near a round tower (MA090-024004-) in a graveyard (MA090-024005-). Lewis (1837, 102) recorded that near the round tower were 'the ruins of a small church, of the same kind of stone, and apparently of similar workmanship, in one of the walls of which is a monumental inscription of great antiquity'. No trace of the church survives. However, a stone altar (MA090-024011-), probably of late medieval in date, which may have come from this church, is located 16.4m NE of the round tower in the E half of the graveyard.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MA090-024010

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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Kathy Lyons Photography (watermark on photograph), displayed by Balla Community and Rural Development, www.balla.ie
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