What is recorded here

One ogee-headed window head still stands outside the church wall, its sunken spandrels unchanged since the medieval building fell. People once walked a hollow cone-shaped stone nearby, paying rounds to St. Carthage Mochaeda, while the new church rose where the old one vanished. The graveyard keeps both memories: buried dead, scattered bricks, and a small piece of rooflight exposed to rain.

The medieval church and graveyard of Kiltallagh (Cill Tulach) is located in the townland of Gransha Lower, parish of Kiltallagh, diocese of Ardfert, barony of Trughanacmy. C. of I. church dedicated to St. Carthach stands in N quadrant of circular-shaped graveyard the N boundary of which forms the townland boundary with Meanus. Field to SW annotated 'Church Field' on 1841 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Graveyard entered off public road to S with second entrance leading from graveyard at NE towards Kiltallagh House located 137m to the NE. Cloghmacudda (KE047-028001-) 123m to E. In 1871 there was a reference to architectural fragments of the medieval church which stated that the medieval church site 'stood where the Protestant church now stands. There are some stones of the old building scatter about the graveyard, and one in the immediate vicinity, hollowed in the shape of an inverted cone, around people pay rounds. This is called Cloch-Mochaeda [KE047-028001-], or the stone of St. Carthage Mochaeda' (Cusack 1871, 453). Architectural fragment of medieval church located outside the SE corner of the C of I church (KE047-029001-). See attached photograph of head of twin light ogee-headed window with sunken spandrels belonging to the medieval church courtesy of Amanda Clarke Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 23 May 2022

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