Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Foher, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Foher
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Salrock Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Salrock Church (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.60717, -9.84740
- SMR number
- GA010-008001-
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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
Situated on E side of Salrock valley and dedicated to St Rioch or Roc. Marked 'in Ruins' near centre of graveyard on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map but as 'Site of on 2nd ed. (1898). No visible trace of it survives in the overgrown graveyard, which is crowded with burials. Two holy wells (GA010-008003--GA010-009----) lie just to NW of church and c. 60m SSW respectively. (Killanin 1954, 100; O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 30; Stokes 1868, 40-1)
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cairn - wayside cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.