Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Creagh, County Galway, Ireland
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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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
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.