Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Killaan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killaan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Killaan Church in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.32160, -8.46302
- SMR number
- GA086-150001-
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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 N face of a glacial ridge in undulating grassland; it stands at NE end of a modern rectilinear graveyard. Possibly a site of E. Chr. origin (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 605-6, also 609). Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a rectangular church (c. 18m by c. 8m), aligned E-W. All that survives is a section of N wall (L 4m, H 3.4m) of a possible rectangular building, incorporated into the modern graveyard wall. The presence of a base-batter at its W end hints that this may preserve part of NW corner. Several cut-stone fragments, probably associated, are scattered around the graveyard. Two holy wells (GA086-150003-, GA086-149----) lie close by to NE and an enclosure (GA086-246----) lay 50m to SW.
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.