Rock Art, CLUAIN tSALACH

Rock Art in Ireland, dating from the Bronze Age

Mevagh Church: It was described in 1622 as 'the ancient parish church now ruinated' (Royal Commission, 216). Built of rubble with pinnings, the surviving church remains, 13.15m by 5.5m internally, consist of the E gable with attached N return, the S wall and a small section of the W gable. The NE quoin is of rough ashlar construction with small pinnings; the SE corner has fallen away. The interior is littered with collapse and graveyard debris. The E gable, c. 5m at the highest N section is lit by a central deeply splayed window built of small horizontally laid stones; the head and most of the rear-arch are missing. The ope, .21m wide, has an estimated height of 1.88m. Immediately S of this window is the splayed ingoing of a smaller window. Part of its head survives giving an ope height of .87m and, though its exact width cannot be determined, it was probably similar to that of the present E window. The position of this window in the E gable supports the suggestion that it was one of a pair. Although no evidence for a corresponding N window survives, it may have been completely removed when the larger E window was built. The S wall, 3.6m high, preserves the ingoing of a deeply splayed window at its E end; it is of similar construction to the central E window. A relieving arch survives above the bond holes of a wooden lintelled doorway in this wall; the splayed ingoings remain b

Period:
Bronze Age

Coordinates:
55.21°N, 7.81°W

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