Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Cruach Na Caoile, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cruach Na Caoile
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Keelans Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Keelans Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.32380, -9.96913
- SMR number
- GA076-005001-
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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
A small, uninhabited island to NW of Oileán Mhic Dara, at SE end of which 2nd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1899) shows a ruined rectangular church, with a holy well (GA076-005002-) immediately to SE. O'Flaherty recorded the existence of a 'chapel' here in 1684, dedicated to St Coelann (Hardiman 1846, 102-4), but the OS Letters state that 'there is no chapelta it at present' (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 68, 71). Not visited. (Killanin 1954, 103)
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
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Leacht2 mi
- Pillar stone2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.