Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical site
Killamanagh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killamanagh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- GA042-156----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Hardiman (1846, 370) refers to 'Cill na Manach, i.e. the church of the monks, a townland containing the ruins of a small abbey, situated to the north of Lough Hackett'. There is a vague local tradition of an early church in this td. but its exact location is unknown. It is also possible that this reference is to the possible church (GA042-001002-) in the adjoining td. of Abbeytown. (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 392)
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