Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Creagh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creagh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Creagh Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Creagh Ch. (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.32898, -8.20233
- SMR number
- GA088-006----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a rectangular graveyard on E outskirts of Ballinasloe town. The standing remains are those of an ivy-mantled rectangular church (E-W; L c. 17.7m, Wth 6.8m) in fair condition. Apart from W gable, all the walls stand to full height. There is a rectangular doorway towards W end of S wall, to E of which are three plain rectangular windows. A large round-headed window graces E gable and there is also a window in N wall. As Egan (1960, 27) surmises, this is a Protestant church of 18th-C date, though it probably stands on the site of the medieval parish church.
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.