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Church

Glebe (Cummer ED), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Glebe, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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