Kiltullagh

Cill meaning a church and Tulaigh coming from the Irish word Tulaigh meaning a hill;

therefore "The Church of the Hill".

There are the remains of a crannóg on Kiltullagh lake.


The remains of Kiltullagh Church and crannóg 5/2000	Kiltullagh Franciscan Friary as it possibly was, 1441—1595

Kiltullagh Church is situated in the northern sector of Kiltullagh graveyard about a quarter of a mile from the Kiltullagh Lake. It is encircled by an early ecclesiastical enclosure roughly circular in plan. The graveyard itself is subrectangular in plan and measures 27m north south by 25m east west. It is no longer used for burials. Only two modern grave markers exist, the othergraves being marked by small uninscribed headstones. All of the headstones are aligned east west. There are no traces of the enclosure to be seen today. The church itself was rectangular in plan and was aligned east west. The four walls are today reduced to low grass topped mounds of earth and stone with some wall facing visible intermittently. Gaps in the wall on the north east and south south west may mark original entrances.

Kiltullagh Church would have been similar to Claddagh Castle (right).

Claddagh Castle - I can't compress this image any more as it increases in size for some reason!

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