Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Finnure, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Finnure
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- R.C. Chapel
- Latest-edition OS map
- Catholic Church (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.22455, -8.41555
- SMR number
- GA098-104001-
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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
The following description is from https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/30409808/finnure-church-finnure-co-galway last accessed 18 February 2020.
Freestanding single-cell Roman Catholic church, built c.1600. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with cut limestone eaves course and with sculped cross finial to entrance gable. Rubble limestone walls, with inscribed plaque to west gable. Pointed arch window opening to east gable, having chamfered limestone surround and replacement fixed window. Pointed arch door opening with cut limestone surround and with corbels supporting the two arch stones, with timber battened door and limestone threshold. Corbelled ceiling and limestone-flagged floor to interior. Recent altar to east end. Inscribed memorial plaques and timber sculpture to interior. Set within graveyard. Double-leaf pedestrian gates to graveyard entrance, with rendered boundary walls. Double-leaf steel and cast-iron gates to site entrance to roadside, having rendered square-profile piers and quadrant walls.
The simple construction of this once-ruinous church is enhanced by an appropriate recent renovation. Enhanced and contextualised by its graveyard setting, the memorial plaque to the interior indicates that this has long been a burial place for the O'Madden family of Hy-Many or Uí Maine. The carefully tooled but partly uncut doorway is indicative of its early date.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 18 February 2020
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.