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Church

An Spidéal Thiar, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, An Spidéal Thiar, 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
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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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

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.

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