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Church

Killimor, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Killimor, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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