Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Fohanagh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fohanagh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.39087, -8.42090
- SMR number
- GA073-082----
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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
On a rise in undulating farmland, it stands within a modern irregularly shaped graveyard. Described in OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 623-4) as an 'old Church ... nearly destroyed'. All that remains of the original fabric of this very poorly preserved rectangular church (E-W; L 16.8m, Wth 5.1m) is part of E gable and adjoining sections of N and S walls. The rest of the masonry is of modern date. The only surviving architectural feature is a plain flat-headed window in E gable which incorporates some dressed stone.
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
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.