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Kiltivna, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Kiltivna, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kiltivna
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Kiltivna Church
Latest-edition OS map
Kiltivna Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.65562, -8.68441
SMR number
GA005-074----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a S-facing slope in grassland; it is situated within a modern rectangular graveyard. According to Neary (1914, 125, no. 17), 'tradition associates the name of St. Patrick with the place'. His plan shows a rectangular building, aligned E-W but outlined by a solid line only at E end, which is situated in E half of an oval 'cashel'. All that survives are fragmentary sections of N side-wall and adjoining section of E gable of a rectangular building (L > 7.7m, Wth > 4.7m). No architectural features are visible. The 'cashel' (ibid.) comprises a poorly preserved oval enclosure (E-W 45m, N-S 25m) defined by a denuded earthen bank from SW through N to SE, and elsewhere by a scarp. The E half is much disturbed by modern graves and the graveyard boundary wall cuts across its W sector. An enclosure (GA005-073----) lies 100m to NNE.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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