What is recorded here

Church (Site of) is a church in Killappoge, County Roscommon, Ireland. J. O'Donovan identified the site with St Mo Lappog in the 1830s, though no saint of that name is known. The church may have served as a chapel-of-ease to Killumod, located 5.5km to the east.

It is identified with a St Mo Lappog, of whom nothing was known, by J. O'Donovan in the 1830s (O'Flanagan 1931 vol. 1, 112), and it was also known as Dromyn (D'Alton 1845, 89). Mo Lappog or Lapán is a familiar form of Labhraidh – he who speaks – and four instances of the name are known in Ireland but there is no saint of the name (Ó Riain 2011, 391). It may have been a chapel-of-ease to Killumod (RO011-106001-), c. 5.5km to the E. It is situated on top of a knoll. An ecclesiastical enclosure (RO010-062003-) is visible as a D-shaped or subtraingular grass-covered area (dims c. 65m N-S; c. 50m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5-4.7m; int. H 0.1-0.4m; ext. H 1.1-1.65m) SE-SW, and a scarp (H 1.4-1.7m) elsewhere. There is no evidence of a church (RO010-062001-) or burial, although a rectangular graveyard (RO010-062002-) (dims c. 30m E-W; c. 30m N-S), of which nothing is now visible, is marked on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and human bones and copper ornaments were found there c. 1860 (OS Name Book). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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