Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Cloghanower, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghanower
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.44962, -9.08740
- SMR number
- GA056-055001-
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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 rise at S end of a small house cluster called Cloneen; it stands within a roughly triangular graveyard (GA056-055002-). According to OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 186), 'the present old church of Kill-Eidhne [which] is certainly not more than 4 centuries old, ... [probably] occupies the site of a more ancient church'. What survives is a poorly preserved and ivy-mantled rectangular building (NW-SE; L > 8.15m, Wth 5.4m), probably of medieval date. Only half of SE gable and adjoining sections of SW and NE side-walls stand above foundation level. The only surviving architectural features are a small rectangular window in SW wall, and part of the embrasure of a centrally placed pointed arch window in SE gable. This gable fell during a storm early in 1990. No visible surface trace survives of the rectangular building labelled 'R.C. Chapel' (GA056-055003-), which is shown on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map on N boundary of the graveyard. A holy well (GA056-058----) lies c. 200m to N and a castle (GA056-054001-) 280m to NW.
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.