Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Baunmore (athenry By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baunmore (athenry By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Bridgets Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.29158, -8.74608
- SMR number
- GA084-021----
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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 pastureland, c. 350m to the SSE of the town of Athenry (see GA084-001----). This poorly preserved rectangular church, which is aligned E-W, now stands in the front garden of a house close to a byroad. It is probably of medieval date and only the heavily ivy-covered W gable (int. L 5.9m; H c. 4.5m) and short returns of the N (int. L 0.6n; H 0.5m; wall T 0.8m) and S ( int. L 1.3m; H 2.75m; wall T 1m) side-walls survive. No architectural features are evident. An 18th-century wall monument (GA084-021001-) is set into the roadside face of the wall to the left of the gate leading into the church. (Cody 1989, 338-9, no. 152, 381-2, no. 166)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 January 2020
References
Cody, E. 1989 An archaeological survey of the barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Memorial stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.