Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Toghergar, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toghergar
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Franciscan Ho. (In Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.49863, -8.36715
- SMR number
- GA047-051----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a byroad in flat grassland. Named on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as 'R.C. Chapel' but on 3rd ed. (1932) as a Franciscan foundation. However, Gwynn and Hadcock (1970, 281) state that there is 'no trustworthy evidence for a ... friary here.' The present remains consist of the shell of a rectangular building, aligned N-S. The N gable contains a blocked doorway with a small window above it. There is also a second, partially blocked, doorway in E wall. Of pointed arch form, it is flanked by two pointed arch windows and surmounted by a decorated plaque of 18th- or 19th-C date bearing an inscription in Latian.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.