Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Killannin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killannin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St Annins Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Annins Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.38303, -9.21872
- SMR number
- GA068-024----
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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
In a graveyard on a slight ridge to the N of Ross Lake. On inspection in July 1983, both gables and the S wall of this poorly preserved medieval church (E-W; L 13.9m, Wth 6.9m), constructed of of rough undressed blocks of limestone, survived; only the E section of the N wall remained, the W end had collapsed. The doorway was located in the S wall close to the SW corner and a plain rectangular window was visible in the E gable. Standing 1m to the S of the church was the mortuary chapel of the Martin family, which contained the tomb of Major Poppelton, dated 1848. On re-inspection in March 2010, it was found that most of the ivy growing on the walls of the both buildings had died off following a local graveyard clean-up. (Killanin 1947, 123; O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 146-7; Hardiman 1846, 54)
The following images have been uploaded:
GA068-024----_01.jpg View of N wall and E gable of church from NE with mortuary chapel in background
GA068-024-----02.jpg E gable of church and E side-wall of chapel
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).
Edited by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 10 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.