Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Rathfee, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathfee
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilskeagh Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilskeagh Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.36788, -8.80305
- SMR number
- GA071-076001-
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 overgrown area of outcropping rock; it lies within an L-shaped graveyard. What survives are the collapsed and overgrown remains of a poorly preserved rectangular church (E-W; L c. 16m, Wth c. 9m). Only the lower courses of the walls still stand (H 1.5m max.) and no architectural features are visible. Immediately to SSW are the grassed-over foundation lines of a rectangular building (N-S 10m, E-W 5m), with a small annexe (L 2m, Wth 1.3m) running E off NE corner. The interior of the latter is lower than the surrounding ground surface: possibly a latrine. A gap in W wall may mark the site of a doorway. Two simple stone-lined graves lie within the interior. A cross (GA071-076004-) is associated and a hall-house (GA071-049----) stands 755m to SSE. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 288)
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
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Cross - Market crossunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.