Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Cill Chiaráin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Chiaráin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Kierans Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Kierans Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.32032, -9.73803
- SMR number
- GA077-016----
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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 E-facing slope of An Bhinn Bhuí overlooking Cuan Cill Chiaráin. Traditionally the site of an E. Chr. church founded by St Ciarán, the remains consist of a small, poorly preserved, oratory (E-W; L 3.8m, Wth 2.8m) with only the foundation and one or two courses of stonework visible. No architectural features survive. A small burial ground to ENE contains a roughly rectangular drystone shrine (L 1.75m, Wth 1.35m, H 0.8m). A holy well lies to ENE (GA077-015----). (Killanin 1954, 103; O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 115, 125; Robinson 1985, 55)
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Shrineunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.