What is recorded here
Situated at the N end of a SE-NW spur with the S-N Killary Water stream in its valley c. 60m to the SW. The site of an early church and the parish church of Killary (ME012-020----) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 67m ENE-WSW; c. 45m NNW-SSE) defined by earthen banks. According to Dopping’s and the Royal Visitations (1682-5; 1697) the church was in ruins since 1641, although it was fenced (Ellison 1973, 6).
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME012-020001
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Photo credits
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Olivier BEZES, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
- Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Jamie Carroll, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Hopmans at nl.wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Jan van Huchtenburgh, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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