Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Maigh Cuilinn, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Maigh Cuilinn
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Moycullen Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Moycullen Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.34227, -9.15673
- SMR number
- GA068-042----
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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
In a graveyard c. 300m E of Moycullen Castle (GA068-044----). Densely overgrown and ruinous remains of a probable medieval church (E-W; L 16m, Wth 6.6m). There is a narrow single-light flat-headed window in E gable and a similar smaller one in the W gable. The N and S walls are almost destroyed. A carving of a stone head protrudes from the exterior of the W gable almost directly above the wndow. The curving graveyard wall appears to be modern. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 163; Hardiman 1846, 55; Killanin 1947, 122)
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 revision: 14 June 2012
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.