Survey Data
Reg No
20401723
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Archaeological
Original Use
Church/chapel
Historical Use
Church/chapel
Date
1600 - 1650
Coordinates
127612, 190903
Date Recorded
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Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding three-bay single-storey single-cell church. Now in ruins. Set in graveyard with tooled limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping supporting flat iron gate. NOTE: Coad Church is 'said to have been built by the celebrated Mauria Roe [1615/6-86], the wife of Conor O'Brien, of Leamaneh, as a chapel of ease, with a view to vex the rector of the parish of Killinaboy with whom she had some quarrel… Two of her children are buried [in its grounds] and their tomb has this inscription: "Here lyes the bodies of Mary and Sianun Ui Brian daughters of Conor O'Brien and Mary O'Brien alias Mahon of Leimineagh Anno Domini 1651"' (Frost 1893, 130).