Church

The National Monuments Service's description

In the NE sector of a graveyard (GA097-148003-) in rolling pastureland. This late-medieval rectangular church (int. dims. 13.2m E-W; 5.7m N-S; wall T 0.9m) is constructed of randomly coursed well-dressed and mortared limestone. It is heavily overgrown with ivy. The N wall (H 1.6-3m) is featureless apart from a small broken window at its W end. The E gable (H c. 1m) is largely collapsed. The S wall (H 3.5m) stands almost to its full height. A broken lintelled doorway is visible towards it W end and to its E end the embrasure of a window survives. Internally beneath this window there is a fluted piscina set into a pointed arched alcove. The W gable (H c. 5m) stands to its original height. A small window is visible near the top of it. A dividing wall (H 3.5m; T 0.6m) was subsequently inserted towards the W end of the church. A partially collapsed doorway at its S end accesses a small barrel-vaulted chamber (5.7m N-S; 2.8m E-W). Neither the dividing wall nor the vault are keyed into the N and S side-wall of the church. It is unclear how access was gained to the chamber overhead where the vault partially obscures the window in noted above in the N wall. The interior of the church is overgrown and contains a number of graves. Some architectural fragments are also visible but the broken stoup noted by Cody (pers. comm.) just inside and to the right of the S doorway was not evident. There is a standing stone (GA097-148002-) c. 25m to the N. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 1, 474).

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 7 April 2020

References

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.