Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Chapel Island, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Chapel Island
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Caillins Chapel (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Callins Chapel (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.39887, -10.21003
- SMR number
- GA048-003001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 E side of this island which is part of the Slyne Head archipelago. Small, well-preserved E. Chr. oratory (WSW-ESE; L 7.2m, Wth 4.75m ext.), its orientation dictated by the natural hollow in which it stands. Two projecting corbels survive at E and W ends of N side-wall. There is a trabeate doorway in W gable and a flat-headed window in E; also an altar and aumbry at E end. A holy well (GA048-003002-) lies c. 20m to ENE. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 99; Killanin 1954, 94; Hardiman 1846, 109-10)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Lighthouseunder 1 mi
- Lighthouseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashel1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.