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Church

Tír An Fhia, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Tír An Fhia, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: 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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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