Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Inchiquin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inchiquin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.46419, -9.23344
- SMR number
- GA041-034002-
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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
This island, in Lough Corrib, is the site of an early monastery reputedly founded by St Brendan the Navigator. It also contained an ancient burial ground known as 'Rathmath'. Faint foundation lines of a building, possibly a church, can be seen at NE end of the island close to the shore. It is rectangular in plan (E-W; L c. 7.6m, Wth 4.7m ext.) but no architectural features survive. This spot is still respected locally but no visible trace of the burial ground survives. (Kelly 1897, 385-6; O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 276; Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 386)
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: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.