Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Cregg (Clare By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cregg (Clare By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.38329, -8.95971
- SMR number
- GA070-056----
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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 slight rise in low-lying level grassland. When originally visited in August 1983, it consisted of a poorly preserved and heavily overgrown rectangular church (E-W; L 11.9m, Wth 5m), probably of late medieval date. Apart from E gable (Wth 0.9m, H 4.5m), only the lower courses of the other walls survived. There was a large gap (Wth 0.8m) in the centre of N side-wall, to W of which the wall line appeared to have been rebuilt a little to S of the original. The S side-wall (Wth 0.6m) and W gable (Wth 1.8m) also appeared to have been at least partly reconstructed. The only surviving architectural feature was a plain single-light round-headed window in E gable. In 1988, the church was extensively 'rebuilt' as part of a graveyard-cleaning scheme, and a grotto-like feature was built on the line of W gable. The church stands just off-centre in an oval graveyard (E-W c. 70m, N-S c. 40m) defined by a modern stone wall (ASGAP 167:77), possibly mirroring the line of an early ecclesiastical enclosure. This monument also extends on to OS sheet 69 (GA069-022----).
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.