Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kildaree (ballymoe By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildaree (ballymoe By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.67829, -8.64818
- SMR number
- GA006-078----
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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 ridge in undulating grassland; it is situated in a modern L-shaped graveyard. Marked on 1st ed. OS 6-inch map as a small roofed rectangular building (c. 8m by c. 4m), aligned N-S. What survives are the low grassed-over foundation lines of a rectangular building (E-W; L 10.4m, Wth 4.8m). No architectural features are visible. However, the presence of a bullaun c. 9m to S of the church, when coupled with the td. name, hints at an E. Chr. horizon for this site. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 68)
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
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.