Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Chapel
An Fhairche, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Fhairche
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- R.C. Chapel
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Patricks R. C. Chapel
- Coordinates
- 53.54497, -9.36265
- SMR number
- GA027-027----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
This modern cruciform church, dedicated to St Patrick, is still in use. An inscribed stone (GA027-027001-) was moved here from the graveyard (GA027-034001-) associated with 'Rosshill Abbey' (GA027-034----) c. 1km to the NNW. (See GA027-034004-) for original location of the slab.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Inscribed slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.