Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Rahoon, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahoon
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.27316, -9.08713
- SMR number
- GA094-049----
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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 low-lying ground in W suburbs of Galway city; surrounding land now developed as housing estates. Dedicated to St James and probably the medieval parish church of Rahoon. Destroyed sometime before 1938. The area immediately around it is occupied by a mainly 19th-C graveyard but two curving sections of graveyard wall to N and S may follow line of an early ecclesiastical enclosure. A holy well (GA094-048----) lies to NW. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 1, 336, 339)
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.