Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Coolrevagh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolrevagh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- R.C. Chapel (in Ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.48587, -8.77850
- SMR number
- GA044-042----
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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
On W side of an old laneway, 100m W of the Grange River. The ruins are those of a rectangular church (NE-SW; L 12.75m, Wth 4.25m), in fair condition, probably of 18th-C date. There is a doorway roughly midway along SE wall, much of which survives only as a foundation. The NE gable contains a roughly square window with a slightly segmental head, below which are traces of an altar abutting the gable. There is also a small flat-headed window set off-centre in SW gable. Just below this, internally, is a rough cross formed naturally by fissures in the stone. Traces of rendering are visible both externally and internally.
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
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.