Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Carrownaseer North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownaseer North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.64301, -8.72820
- SMR number
- GA005-035002-
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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
In low-lying grassland to S of the Derrymore River. Traditionally associated with St Patrick (Neary 1914, 125, no. 50). A poorly preserved rectangular church (E-W; L 10.6m, Wth 7.2m ext.) only the grassed-over foundations of which are now visible. A rectangular enclosure (E-W 37m, N-S 20.5m) surrounds it. It is defined by a drystone wall on W, N and E sides: the S side has been removed. There is an entrance (Wth 1.8m) at W. Immediately S of the church is a cross-slab GA005-035005-) (Higgins 1987, 318, no. 44). A bullaun, marked on OS 6-inch maps as 'St. Patrick's Stone', lies 60m to NNE. A tau cross (GA005-035006-) and a CBG (GA005-035007-) are also associated.
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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross - Tau crossunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.