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Church

Kilkerrin, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Kilkerrin, 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
Kilkerrin
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Kilkerrin Church (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Kilkerrin Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.54925, -8.57882
SMR number
GA031-044----

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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

On a slight rise in undulating grassland: it stands in SW part of a large rectangular graveyard. According to OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 229), no 'ruins of the parochial church, if there was ever a very old one primarily ... are ... at present observable'. However, they note the presence of a 'Protestant church, some time ago deserted, ... [which] threatens ruin'. This is undoubtedly the structure marked on 1st and later eds. of OS 6-inch map as being 'in Ruins'. According to Melvin (c. 1971, 11), this church 'was erected in 1784' and is described in 1837 as 'about to be re-built'. The visible remains comprise a ruinous rectangular church (E-W; L 13.8m, Wth 7.7m ext.) of which N and S side-walls and E gable still stand. The main architectural features consist of large pointed arch windows, two in each of the side-walls and one centrally placed in E gable. Roads (GA031-044002-) are associated. (CUCAP AYQ 70)

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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