Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Chapel
Moneen (Part of), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moneen (Part of)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Templebeg
- Coordinates
- 53.41227, -8.51449
- SMR number
- GA060-176----
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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 hillock, it is enclosed by a rectangular wall but no trace of a graveyard is visible. It comprises a small well-preserved rectangular building (E-W; L 8.9m, Wth 5.25m ext.), complete with a slated roof and cross on E gable. There is a trabeate doorway in W gable which has chamfered jambs externally. This is surmounted by a plaque bearing the crest of the Blake family, dated 1688. There is also a narrow single-light flat-headed window in E gable: externally its jambs are chamfered and there are traces of a moulding around the sill. The exterior and interior are plastered and the latter is roofed by a vaulted ceiling. The interior contains a burial vault of the Blake family and a number of architectural fragments. Possibly an early oratory refurbished as a mortuary chapel: according to local tradition, mass was celebrated here in Penal times. An enclosure (GA060-177----) lies c. 100m to SW.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.