Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Cashel (Tiaquin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel (Tiaquin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.63038, -8.61486
- SMR number
- GA006-030001-
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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 small but prominent hillock in undulating grassland. Possibly the site of a pre-Norman monastery (Conway c. 1980, 2-3), it was probably the site of the medieval parish church (ibid., 14). Described in OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 79-80) as the 'old church of Bweeounagh ... all destroyed, with the exception of a small fragment of the north side wall. The building was 18 feet broad [5.5m], but its length cannot be ascertained'. All that survives are faint traces of W wall and a fragment of N wall (L 4m, Wth 1m, H 2.8m) of a rectangular building, possibly aligned N-S. The surviving masonry is of roughly coursed limestone blocks. The building stands in N half of a roughly circular graveyard (D c. 50m) defined by a cemented stone wall: there is a modern extension to NW. Conway (ibid., 3-4) mentions 'the carved stones of its Gothic arches strew[ing] the grounds of the little cemetery' but no trace of any architectural fragments was noted. A holy well (GA006-031----) lay 80m to W: a 'monastery' (GA006-030002-) and a wayside monument (GA006-033----) are also associated. (Knight c. 1975, 3)
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
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.