The Churches of Britain and Ireland
County Cavan 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.
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11 September 2024
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