Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB02/05/028

Address :
Templemoyle Old Church site Banagher Road Templemoyle Dungiven Co Londonderry

Townland:
Templemoyle

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Church

Former Use
Church

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
Yes

Derelict:
Partially

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OS Map No:
51/9

IG Ref:
C6704 0728

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Site of early mediaeval church with only remains of some stones and scrub growing through them. Situated in the middle of a barley field to the side of a laneway off the Banagher Road. No plan form can be readily discerned.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Said to have been founded by St Murrough O’Heney in the late 11th cent. but was abandoned by the saint because of the flatness of the ground and he moved to the more elevated site in Magheramore townland where the ruins of Banagher old church stand. O.S. Memoirs relates that a dispute arose as to the site of the church. It is said that a deer indicated the site, another story is that each night after a day’s building it was thrown down. There is doubt as to whether a finished edifice was achieved. Yet it was surmised that the entrance was located near the west end of the south wall. There is no evidence today to confirm this. The site is marked on the O.S. Map 1830 Rev. 1905 Londonderry sh. 30. M No. LDY 30.30 References Primary Sources 1. O.S. Map 1830 Londonderry sh. 30. 2. O.S. Map 1830 Rev. 1905 Londonderry sh. 30 3. O.S. Memoirs of Ireland, Parishes of Co Londonderry X, 1833-34, 1838 Ed by Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams Q.U.B. p. 37, 39, 41 Secondary Sources 1. Banagher History Group, Historic Monuments and Sites of Banagher p. 35

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A site of an early mediaeval church of the 11th or early 12th cent. It is uncertain whether a church was established here but it is suggested that it was the forerunner of Banagher Old Church.

General Comments

Date of Survey

17 July 2000