Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Templemartin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Templemartin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Templemartin Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Templemartin Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.24756, -8.73971
- SMR number
- GA096-165----
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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
In scrubland overlooking a turlough to the N. This very poorly preserved rectangular church (12m NW-SE; 5.9m NE-SW; wall T 0.9-1m) is densely overgrown. All that survives is the S end of the SE gable (L 3m; ext. H 1.7m) and the foundation lines of the NW gable and NE side-wall. A field wall overlies the SW side-wall. No architectural features are visible. According to local information there was a graveyard (GA096-165001-) to the S. Current aerial imagery (OSi digitalglobe) indicates that this area is now overgrown with trees. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 1, 444; McCaffrey 1952, 80, 83, 145).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 April 2020
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.