Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
An Bhánrainn Bhán Theas, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Bhánrainn Bhán Theas
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23010, -9.53164
- SMR number
- GA091-001001-
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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
On the seashore at the mouth of a small stream and within a graveyard (GA091-001002-). Depicted and labelled 'Ch. Ru.' on Larkin's map of county Galway c. 1802 (pers. comm. M. Gibbons). Not shown on any editions of the OS 6-inch maps. It was reputedly one of the monastic foundations of St Columcille (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 376) and former site of a church (Killanin 1947, 130-31). No visible surface trace of the church survivies. A natural boulder known as Mullán Cholmcille or St Columcille's Boat (GA091-002----) lies on the shore to the SW, and two tidal holy wells (GA091-006----; GA091-007----) lie c. 161m to the SW and c. 255m to the S (pers. comm. T. Robinson). (Hardiman 1846, 63)
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).
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 12 April 2023
References
Killanin, L. 1947 Notes on some of the antiquities of the barony of Moycullen, Co. Galway. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 22, 120-31.
Hardiman, J. (ed) 1846 A chorographical description of West or H-Iar Connaught written in A.D. 1684 by Roderic O'Flaherty, Esq. Dublin.
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.