Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kill (ballindoon Par.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kill (ballindoon Par.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilflannann Ch. (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilflannan Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.48044, -10.07107
- SMR number
- GA035-048001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On N shore of Lough Nakilla. Small poorly preserved medieval church (E-W; L 10.3m, Wth 4.5m) dedicated to St Flannan of Killaloe. The only surviving features are a plain doorway in N wall and the Morris family tomb in interior. The oldest part of graveyard (GA035-048002-), oval in plan, surrounds the church. To S of church is a leacht (GA035-048004-) consisting of a drystone wall (L 2.5m, H 0.5m) with a niche, set into the natural slope. A natural boulder, known as St Flannan's Bed (GA048-063----), lies c. 100m E of the graveyard and there is a holy well (GA035-048003-) to SW. A broken architectural fragment (H c. 0.25m), consisting of a robed figure carved in relief but missing its head, was found during renovations of Errislaannan Manor (pers. comm. T. Robinson; the house lies c. 170m to the ENE. It is possible that the fragment came from the church. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 97-8, 101; Killanin 1954, 95;Hardiman 1846, 111-12).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 17 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.