What is recorded here
Listed by Bradley (1985, 83) as a Penal Chapel of possible 17th century date. The ruins of this T-shaped church stand at the W end of the graveyard (WM008-097014-) of St. Mary's parish church (WM008-097002-). On the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map this building is annotated as R. C. Chapel and is shown standing immediately to…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM008-097007
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- Olliebailie, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- N Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
- JohnArmagh, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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