Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Inchagoill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inchagoill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Templenaneeve (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Templenaneeve (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.48544, -9.31548
- SMR number
- GA040-013004-
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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
About 75m SE of St Patrick's church (GA040-013001-). This church, correctly Teampall na Naomh, is a nave and chancel church (E-W; L 10.15m, Wth 6.47m) with a Romanesque doorway in W wall, a plain chancel arch, round-headed windows in E and S walls, and an external projecting corbel at NE corner of chancel. A decorated cross-slab (GA040-013008-) is incorporated into W end of S wall of nave. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 48-9, 50-3; Fahey 1901b, 239-40; Leask 1955, Vol. 1, 110-11)
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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 30 January 2018
The monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 412.
References
Leask, H.G. 1955 (Reprint 1977 and 1987) Irish churches and monastic buildings, vol. I. The first phases of the Romanesque. Dundalk. Dundalgan Press.
Fahey, J. 1901b The shrines of Inis-an-Ghoill, Lough Corrib. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 236-45.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.