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This is an early ecclesiastical site associated with St Brocaidh of Imleach, a putative nephew of St Patrick (Ó Riain 2011, 126-7). The death of abbot Dumhgnasach is recorded in 757 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 383). The church is listed as Imletford in the ecclesiastical taxation of Elphin in 1306 (Cal. doc. Ire., Vol. 5, 224), and it is situated on the crest of a low NW-SE drumlin ridge. The graveyard (RO027-034002-) was destroyed in 1837 by the construction of a NW-SE road and nothing of it remains, but the church (RO027-034001-) is reputed to have been on the N side of the road (Connellan 1948-9, 142-3). There may have been an enclosure (Timoney 1990, 15), which is not visible now.
The base of a cross (RO027-034004-) is almost buried in the road bank on the N side, and about 50m E of the graveyard site is a collection of six high cross-fragments (RO027-034006-; RO027-034007-; RO027-034008-; RO027-034008-; RO027-034009-; RO027-034010-) set into a plinth, representing perhaps three crosses (Harbison 1992, vol. 1, 86-7), one being set in a cross-base (RO027-034005-). St Brocaidh's Well or Emlagh Well (RO027-033----) is c. 220m to the N. Archaeological testing (05E1259) c. 50m to the S of the crosses failed to produce any related material (Purcell, J. 2008).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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