Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Glebe (cummer Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glebe (cummer Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.46137, -8.89598
- SMR number
- GA043-085002-
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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 SE quadrant of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA043-085001-). A rectangular late medieval church (E-W; L 18.3m, Wth 6.2m) in good condition, apart from E end of N wall which is no longer extant. The original doorway, with a pointed arch, is situated about mid-point along S wall. There are two round-headed windows and one flat-headed single light in S wall and a round-headed window in W gable. There is also a window in E gable, now much obscured by ivy, which is described in OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 129-30) as 'a lancet'. Immediately to S of it is an aumbry. To W of the doorway, the grassed-over foundations of an internal dividing wall are visible. This and the six corbels at W end of N and S walls and on W gable, suggest the former presence of a loft at this end.
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
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.