Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Lemonfield, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lemonfield
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.42404, -9.30460
- SMR number
- GA054-045----
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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 a low ridge overlooking Lough Corrib to NE. The remains comprise a medieval church (E-W; L 15.4m, Wth 6m) with later S transept (L 4.15m, Wth 4.05m). There is a doorway in S wall and opposing windows at E end of N and S walls, all robbed. The E gable contains a single-light ogee-headed window. A second doorway at end of S wall leads to the transept which is lit by a twin-light window, crowned by a circular ope, in S wall. The large graveyard is mainly modern but its curving N wall may reflect the line of an early ecclesiastical enclosure. Possibly the site of St Cummin's E. Chr. monastery. (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 390; Killanin 1947, 124; O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 143a-5)
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.