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Church

Lemonfield, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Lemonfield, 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
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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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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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