Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
An Caorán Beag,barr An Doire, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Caorán Beag,barr An Doire
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Templeinishmackaun Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Templeinishmackaun Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.24813, -9.57865
- SMR number
- GA090-003001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Close to seashore on W side of Cuan Chasla and 85m S of an irregularly shaped graveyard (GA090-002----). Though properly known as Teampall Inis Mac Adhaimh, this well-preserved medieval church (ENE-WSW; L 15.60m; Wth 5m) is, however, attributed locally to a St Mocán or Smocán (pers. comm. T. Robinson). There is a robbed doorway in S wall, the scattered fragments of which indicate it had a pointed arch and moulded architrave. Directly opposite, in N wall, is a later doorway with a pointed arch. A cusped ogee-headed window in E gable has decorated spandrels and a hood-moulding. Later internal division at W end with a possible gallery above; possibly a priest's quarters. (Killanin 1947, 130; Hardiman 1846, 63, 64)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
The following images have been uploaded:
GA090-003001-_01.jpg View from NE
GA090-003001-_03.jpg E window
GA090-003001-_04.jpg Detail of decorated spandral
GA090-003001-_05.jpg Robbed doorway in S wall
GA090-003001-_11.jpg Blocked doorway in N wall
Nearby in the register
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- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Martello towerunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.