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Church

Creagh, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 1st edition (1829–1842) covering the location of Church, Creagh, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 1st edition (1829–1842), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Creagh
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.33109, -8.20198
SMR number
GA088-008001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

At N end of a large rectilinear graveyard, 250m N of a church (GA086-006----). According to Egan (1960, 118-19, also 116), this is the site of an early 18th-C 'Mass house' which was in use until 1824 when it was replaced by another church (GA088-008002-). Though no visible surface trace of it now survives, Egan (ibid.) describes it as rectangular in plan (E-W; L c. 20m, Wth c. 5.5m), 'the walls ... scarcely higher than those of a cabin'. The doorway was at W end of S wall. It was lit by a small window in S wall near the altar and by a series of 'unglazed loops in the side walls'. A 'larger pointed window' was later inserted in E gable over the altar. A holy water font originally located here is now in the later 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.

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