Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Cathair Ghabhann, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cathair Ghabhann
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Abbey (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Abbey (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.34546, -8.94327
- SMR number
- GA070-012001-
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
Associated with the medieval borough of Claregalway (GA070-107----): on S bank of the River Clare, 150m SE of the friary (GA070-035001-). A very poorly preserved rectangular church (E-W; L c. 26.5m. Wth 8.5m); probably the parish church of the medieval borough. All that survives are sections of N and S side-walls, both of which are battered externally. Two windows and a possible (blocked) doorway are visible in S wall, and a window and alcove in N wall.
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.