Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
An Spidéal Thiar, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Spidéal Thiar
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Abbey (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Abbey (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.24345, -9.30535
- SMR number
- GA092-021----
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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
Near seashore in NE corner of a graveyard which also contains the modern parish church. Much-rebuilt remains of a post-medieval church (ENE-WSW; L 11.5m, Wth 5.1m) dedicated to St Enda. There is a doorway in N wall and a robbed window in E gable. A second doorway in W gable leads to a later annexe (L 5.5m, Wth 5m) with an internal division; possibly the priest's house. A well-preserved, but sealed, 18th-C mortuary chapel (WSW-ENE; L 8.5m, Wth 5.5m ext.) stands on a rise at S end of graveyard. This graveyard may occupy the site of the medieval hospital/leper house from which An Spidéal takes its name. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 167-72; Killanin 1947, 131; Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 355)
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.