Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Killower, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killower
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.51306, -8.95376
- SMR number
- GA029-111001-
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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
On a rise in pastureland; it stands within a roughly rectangular graveyard. According to Gwynn and Hadcock (1970, 393), this was an 'early mon[astery]; erenagh eleventh century'. What is visible is a poorly preserved rectangular church (E-W; L 19, Wth 5m). Apart from W gable which contains the base of a window, only the grassed-over foundation lines of N, E and S walls survive. Within the interior lie two cut-stone fragments, including an arch stone and part of a window jamb. 'Labbapatrick' (GA029-111003-) lies c. 6m to NE. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 203; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 448)
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
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.