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Kilbarry, St Berach

Location
(53°46′43″N, 7°53′40″W)
Kilbarry, St Berach
N 07 81
pre-1974 traditional (Republic of Ireland) Roscommon
now Roscommon
medieval Elphin
now Elphin
medieval St Berach
  • Roger Stalley
Missing

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Feature Sets
Description

The remnants of two or possibly three ruined churches survive within the local graveyard. No Romanesque sculpture survives on site, but recorded drawings indicate that there were Romanesque fragments here formerly.

History

Kilbarry was the site of an early Christian monastery, said to have been founded by St Berach in 615.

Features

Loose Sculpture

Bibliography

Daniel Grose, The Antiquities of Ireland, A Supplement to Francis Grose, edited and introduced by Roger Stalley (Dublin, 1991), 204.