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Church

Kilmurry (Ballymoe By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Kilmurry, 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
Kilmurry (Ballymoe By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Kilmurry Church (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Kilmurry Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.56912, -8.68957
SMR number
GA017-121001-

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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

Within an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA017-121003-). Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a roofed rectangular structure but named as 'in Ruins'. All that survives are the partially overgrown foundations of a rectangular building (E-W; L 23.2m, Wth 8.25m). Neary (1914, 124, no. 98) mentions the presence of 'a large doorway in the middle of the N. wall' but a field wall now overlies this and its position was not located. All that is visible of E gable is a grassed-over foundation line, outside of which is a large pile of rubble. Only E end of S wall can be traced, though a short length of wall, running N-S, appears to overlie its line at W end. The W gable (Wth 1m, H 2.1m int.) is the best preserved and is rendered internally. Traces of an internal division are visible towards W end, to W of which the floor level drops by 0.3m.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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