Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Tír An Fhia, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tír An Fhia
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Oilither Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Oilither Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.23347, -9.65107
- SMR number
- GA090-019----
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
In a graveyard on seashore at An Trá Bháin, Oileán Garomna, at the mouth of Cuan an Fhir Mhóir. A small much-conserved late medieval church (NW-SE; L 5.3m, Wth 4m) referred to by Roderic O'Flaherty as 'Olther...or Pilgrime's church' (Hardiman 1846, 65). There is a chamfered, pointed-arch doorway in SW wall and a plain window in SE gable with an altar below. Beam-holes in NW and SE gables suggest the former presence of a loft. (Killanin 1947, 125, 128, 130)
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
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.