Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Clonbern, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonbern
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Clonbern Church in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Clonbern Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.55687, -8.65613
- SMR number
- GA031-016----
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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
In flat farmland within the former demesne of Clonbern Park. Probably the site of the medieval parish church which, according to Knox (1903, 293), was called 'Kilbrenan'. The remains comprise a very poorly preserved rectangular church (E-W; L >6.3m, Wth c. 6.4). Only the ivy-covered E gable (H 2m) survives to any height along with short grassed-over lengths of N and S side-walls. The subrectangular graveyard also contains a large early 19th-C rectangular vault (L 6m, Wth 4m) dedicated to the Egan family and a remarkable circular metal mausoleum dedicated to the Browne family. Two holy wells (GA031-017----, GA031-018----) may be associated. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 101-2)
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.