Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Cloghanower, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghanower
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- R.C. Chapel
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44978, -9.08784
- SMR number
- GA056-055003-
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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
Located at the NW end of a burial ground (GA056-055002-) associated with a medieval church (GA056-055001-). Named 'R.C. Chapel' on the 1938 edition of the OS 6-inch map and depicted as a roofed rectangular building (c. 22m NNE-SSW; c. 8m NNW-SSE). On the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16), it is labelled 'School'. No visible trace survives.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 27 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.