Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Inchagoill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inchagoill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.48580, -9.31629
- SMR number
- GA040-013001-
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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 NE corner of a rectangular graveyard (GA040-013003-) about mid-point along the island and c. 150m SW of landing place. Conserved E. Chr. church comprising a nave (E-W; L 5.5m, Wth 3.65m) with later chancel (L 3.5m, Wth 2.55m) at E end. There is a trabeate door in W wall and robbed window in E. One of the cross-inscribed pillars (see also GA040-013009- and GA040-013010-), famed for its 6-7th-C inscription to Luguaedon (GA040-013002-), stands in SW corner of the graveyard. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 46-7; Kinahan 1868a, 76-7; Hardiman 1846, 186-7)
The following image has been attached: GA042-013001-_01.jpg View from SW
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).
Date of upload: 16 August 2010
The monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 412.
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Hardiman, J. (ed) 1846 A chorographical description of West or H-Iar Connaught written in A.D. 1684 by Roderic O'Flaherty, Esq. Dublin.
Kinahan, G.H. 1868a Cyclopean churches in the vicinity of Loughs Corrib, Mask, and Carra. Part I. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 10, 76-80.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.