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Church

Creevaghbaun, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Creevaghbaun, 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
Creevaghbaun
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Creevaghbaun Church (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Creevaghbaun Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.49236, -8.76691
SMR number
GA044-047002-

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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 NE quadrant of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA044-047001-), it stands at extreme E end of the graveyard. This is the site of a Carmelite monastery founded in the 14th C 'by one of the de Burgos' (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 288). The visible remains comprise an ivy-grown rectangular church (E-W; L 16.5m, Wth 8m ext.), in fair condition, probably of medieval date. Apart from N wall which is almost completely gone, the others still stand close to full height. There is a flat-headed doorway with a bar-slot at W end of S wall. Traces of a window are also visible at mid-point in this wall and E gable contains a large window ope. There is also a small rectangular window high up in W gable, suggesting the former presence of a loft at this end of the building. The interior is dominated by three large burial vaults built against E gable and S wall. The largest, in the centre of S wall, is surmounted by two decorated heads.

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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