The Churches of Britain and Ireland

County Cavan

County Cavan on Wikipedia.
 

Drumalure Beg (south east of Belturbet), St. Andrew (CoI). SA 4644 7747. © Jack Storey. Link.

Killeshandra, St. Brigid (R.C.), south of the town. From an old postcard in Reg Dosell's Collection. This postcard was badly faded, and has had to be heavily processed to produce the present image. 2019 Streetview. SA 3807 7085. Older maps show a R.C. Chapel a little way to the south in what is now the graveyard. A Streetview from 2019 shows its scant ivy-covered remains. SA 3806 7078. Link, wherein the present church is dated to 1863, its predecessor to 1790. The CoI church is on Main Street (2019 Streetview) and dated here to 1842. It also says that it had a predecessor, noted in 1837 as "a very ancient structure, but in a state of dilapidation". Whether it was on the same site or not is unclear. SA 3805 7155. Could it have been the Church of the Rath (2019 Streetview), which stands at the north end of the town, on Church Street? It seems likely, although this source (which dates it to the late 1600's) says that it fell into disrepair after the present CoI church was built. SA 3782 7206. A map of 1892-1914 shows a Preaching Ho. on what is today the R201 at SA 3793 7159. This will have been the Methodist Chapel mentioned here (listed as Killeshandra II), where it's dated to 1886 and sold to the Mason's in 1967. A stone with the Mason's compass symbol can be seen in a Streetview from 2019. The same source also includes an entry for a predecessor (Killeshandra I), dated to 1810, but doesn't locate it.
Kilmore, the cathedral, known as the Cathedral in the Country, dedicated to St. Fethlimidh. Jack tells me that this is the burial place of Bishop Bedell, who first translated the Old Testament into Irish Gaelic. A tree he planted (in 1643) is still standing in the graveyard, although the present cathedral dates from circa 1860 (source). SA 4515 6733. © Jack Storey. Old maps mark, a little way to the north, Church, at SA 4512 6747, as part of a building called Old Palace (presumably a Bishop's Palace). The church (or the building on its site) was seen by Streetview in 2019.

 

 

  

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