Church in Ballyogan

Killanin and Duignan (1967, 302) describe the church in Ballyogan as, ‘Páirc an Teampaill, alias the Chapel Field, site in turn of an early monastery (High Cross now at Graiguenamanagh) and a manorial church’, giving the location as half a mile W of Galmoy Castle, by the roadside. The church is no longer upstanding but a field, called 'Chapel Field' on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map, is located on the E side of a by-road which runs roughly N-S between the R705 (runs between The Rower and Graiguenamanagh) and the River Barrow, c. 880m SSW of Galmoy Castle (KK029-021----) and c. 330m W of the Barrow. However, according to location information the 'Chapel Field' is c. 850m further S, with ruins formerly surviving in the adjacent field, the whole area being known as the 'Holy World'. The church is not visible at ground level. A high cross (KK029-038001-) was moved from this location and erected in the graveyard (see KK029-018012-) adjacent to the restored Cistercian abbey church (KK029-018001-) in Graiguenamanagh. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 12 June 2023

A local church or high cross; wider significance not recorded.