Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Cluain Duibh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cluain Duibh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Templebeg (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Templebeg (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.32799, -9.14974
- SMR number
- GA081-005001-
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
On level ground 100m E of Ballycuirke Lough. Ruined early medieval nave and chancel church (E-W; L 10.7m, Wth 5m ext.) with a straight-sided doorway in W gable. Portions of a plain chancel arch of three orders survive. A bullaun (GA081-005003-) lies 5m to NW and there is a Childrens Burial Ground (GA081-005002-) to S and E. (Killanin 1947, 122, 128; Ellanin and Duignan 1967, 381)
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
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.