Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Rosscahill East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rosscahill East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Brecans Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Brecans Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.38764, -9.24642
- SMR number
- GA068-061001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 an area of scrub and woodland to NW of Ross Lake. A much-ruined E. Chr. oratory (E-W; L c. 4.6m, Wth 2.9m) with round-headed window in E gable. The W gable and parts of N and S walls are destroyed. A small graveyard (GA068-061002-) lies immediately to W and a double bullaun (GA068-061003-) c. 50m to SW. (Kinahan 1868a, 78; Killanin 1947, 123-4, 127)
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 upload: 05 August 2010
The following images have been uploaded:
GA068-061001-_01.jpg Internal view of E gable
GA068-061001-_02.jpg External view of E gable
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Icehouseunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.