Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Killimor, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killimor
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Imors Chapel (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Imors Chapel (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.30610, -8.59603
- SMR number
- GA085-056001-
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 E bank of the Killimor River, wedged between a modern graveyard to N and a modern RC church to S. The remains are those of a poorly preserved rectangular medieval church (E-W; L >16.2m, Wth 6.5m). Only E gable stands to full height; the N wall is largely rebuilt and the only trace of S wall is a small section at SW angle. The only surviving architectural feature is a broken twin-light window in E gable with a shallow pointed arch and a hood moulding. A burial vault occupies the probable site of W gable and another stands just outside the line of S wall. A tower house (GA085-057----) stands 80m SSE. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 462-3, 466-7)
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
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.