Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cathedral
Townparks (2nd Division - Tuam), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townparks (2nd Division - Tuam)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Marys Cathedral
- Latest-edition OS map
- ST. MARYS CATHEDRAL
- Coordinates
- 53.51373, -8.85497
- SMR number
- GA029-179001-
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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
At S end of high St., in the centre of Tuam town (GA029-199----). It is now sandwiched between the 19th-C Protestant cathedral of St Mary and the 14th-C Synod Hall (GA029-179002-). A Romanesque nave and chancel church built in the late 12th C (Clyne 1988, 90). The nave was destroyed by fire in 1767 (ibid.) but the chancel, square in plan (L c. 5.5m), with its fine barrel-vaulted roof survives. This was subsequently used as a porch for the adjoining Synod Hall. A Nat. Mon., the surviving architectural features include an outstanding ornate Romanesque chancel arch of six orders supported by coulumns, three decorated round-headed Romanesque windows in E gable, and another in S wall (Leask 1977, 153-4). (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 98-100; Harbison 1975, 101-2; Stalley 1981)
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
- Cathedralunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.