Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballycolgan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycolgan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.46921, -9.05946
- SMR number
- GA042-017001-
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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 grassland. According to local tradition, there was a 'old church' known as 'St Patrick's' here. Its memory is preserved in the name of a nearby house marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1920) as 'St. Patrick's'. No visible surface trace survives. Some massive boulders in the vicinity may have been part of it. A mass rock (GA042-017----) lies close by.
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
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.