Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Bunowen More, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunowen More
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ballindoon Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballindoon Church (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.41513, -10.11256
- SMR number
- GA049-014----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · 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
At E end of Doon Hill close to beach. Site of a medieval parish church. When visited by OS in 1838 only 'a fragment of the S sidewall... seven feet [2.13m] high and twenty feet [12.8m] long' survived (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 97, 101). No visible surface trace survives. A chapel (GA049-015001-) lies c. 170m to ESE. (Killanin 1954, 93)
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Signal towerunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.