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Church

Killeroran, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Killeroran, 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
Killeroran
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Killeroran Church
Latest-edition OS map
Killeroran Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.51241, -8.31268
SMR number
GA033-036001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

In flat farmland overlooking bogland and the River Suck to E; it stands within a graveyard which is shown on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as D-shaped in plan but is now rectangular. The remains comprise a poorly preserved rectangular church (WNW-ESE; L 12.4m, Wth 7.15m). Apart from W gable which is largely destroyed, the other walls still stand. There is a robbed doorway towards E end of S wall. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 110-12) noted the existence of a possible window in one of the side-walls and 'an opening ... on one gable ... now a breach 3 feet [0.9m] broad, at the ground, and battered on both sides from near the ground': possibly a trabeate doorway. No visible trace of these features survives. The E end of the interior is occupied by a 19th-C vault of the Kelly family. 'Kelly's Monument', a striking 19th-C folly (H c. 15m) in the form of a round tower (Barrow 1979, 106), stands 80m to NW.

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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