Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kiltivna, County Galway, Ireland
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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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 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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.