Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Chapel
Glassillaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glassillaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- R. C. Chapel (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- R.C. Chapel (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.61087, -9.87632
- SMR number
- GA010-011----
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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
At a road junction to S of Glassillaun beach. No visible trace survives of this 18th-C R.C. chapel (info. T. Robinson) but a font from it lies in a field by the shore 200m to NW. There is also a mass-rock c. 210m to NE and a possible wayside cairn site (GA010-042----) 100m to E.
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
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Cairn - wayside cairnunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.