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Church

Cashleen, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Cashleen, 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
Cashleen
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Rinvyle Church . . . (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Rinvyle Church . . . (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.60440, -10.03403
SMR number
GA009-004----

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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

In the older part of a graveyard, 400m SW of Renvyle Castle (GA009-015----). A medieval church (E-W; L 13.1m, Wth 5m ext.), also named 'Church of the Seven Daughters' on OS 6-inch map. Three walls survive almost intact, but most of W has collapsed. The doorway, with pointed arch, is in N wall. There is a fine single-light window with triangular head in E wall with an altar below it and two aumbries in SE corner. A partially robbed window is visible in S wall, and a later dividing wall towards W end. Beam-slots in S wall indicate a former loft or gallery at W end. Possible traces of an earlier doorway are visible in masonry of collapsed wall. A holy well (GA009-016----) lies c. 120m to NNE. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 26-7; Killanin 1954, 99; Topgr. Files, NMI)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).

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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