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Kilcoole

Location
(53°6′25″N, 6°3′34″W)
Kilcoole
O 30 08
pre-1974 traditional (Republic of Ireland) Wicklow
now Wicklow
  • Tessa Garton
3 July 1993

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Feature Sets
Description

Nave and chancel church, with barrel vaulted nave and chancel of which the lower vault springing remains on both sides. Considerably restored. Rubble masonry, with slate-like stone in irregular courses. Side walls and gable walls of nave and chancel remain, but vaults and roof missing. Probably had upper chamber between barrel vault and steep-pitched stone roof. E gable has traces of a blocked window with inclined jambs and a flat lintel. W extension added later as a 2-storey living quarters (now roofless and missing S wall). W doorway of nave is square-headed with a rough, flat lintel. S wall of nave has round-headed window.


History

Not known. Not recorded in Gwynn & Hadcock.


Features

Exterior Features

Windows

Comments/Opinions

No carved stone work apart from mouldings on S window of nave. Church probably built in the 12thc (Harbison).

Bibliography


P. Harbison, Guide to the National & Historic Monuments of Ireland, Dublin 1970, 257; 1992, 346.