Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Cappagh (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappagh (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64319, -8.76013
- SMR number
- GA005-027002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On S-facing slope of Slieve Dart in an area of scrub and rock outcrop; the site is now dissected by a boreen. According to Neary (1914, 126, no. 62), this was once 'the scene of a large pilgrimmage [sic.]'. Apart from the remains of 'two holy wells' (GA005-027004-, GA005-027005-) and an 'altar', he also noted 'some small sections of foundations about 3 ft. in diameter' which he believed marked the site of a 'church ... which ... stood E. by W. above the wells'. Only very faint traces of the latter are now visible in the undergrowth immediately E of a penitential station. This consists of a small crudely built U-shaped stone wall (2.5m by 2.2m) opening towards NW. The two holy wells lie close by to SE. To W, in an adjacent field on opposite side of the boreen, is the stone-built altar (L 2.4m, Wth 1.2m, H 0.9m) marked on OS 6-inch maps. It incorporates a cross-slab (Higgins 1987, 313, no. 39).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Altarunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.