Ecclesiastical enclosure in Templescoby

Ecclesiastical enclosure

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Situated on a gentle SE-facing slope. The name ‘Templescoby’ occurs on the Down Survey (1656) county, barony and parish maps as a townland name in Rosdrehide parish. The east edge of Rosdroit parish was transformed into a separate parish called Templescoby by the Church of Ireland in 1806, and its church – St Paul’s - was completed in 1817 c. 1.5km to the E (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 614). The name is derived from the Gaelic Teampall Scuaibe – the church of Scuaibe, but a saint of this name is not known (Ó Riain 2011). The church at Moneyhore (WX025-43001-) is c. 1.1km to the W. An early church seems to have been established here, and there are local traditions of a monastery, a burial ground (IFC: Schools Collection vol. 0901, 201, 236, 294), and an old town (SMR file). The only evidence of the church is the cropmark of a large enclosure (ext. diam. c. 350m E-W; c. 310m N-S) defined by two fosse features placed c. 8m apart that can be traced only on Google Earth (14/07/2018) curving S-NNW, and its course might be traced in other features E-S. Situated c. 20-25m inside this double fosse is a single fosse traceable S-NW. Indications of what might be two banks roughly following these lines can be seen on OSI images (2005). It was also noted by Simon Dowling.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX025-064

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