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Church

Killogilleen, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Killogilleen, 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
Killogilleen
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Killogilleen Church (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Killogilleen Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.19152, -8.70320
SMR number
GA104-148004-

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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

Within a field system (GA104-148003-). This poorly preserved rectangular medieval church (10.75m E-W; 7m N-S) is heavily overgrown with ivy. Both gables survive as well as most of the S side-wall, however, there is a breach in this wall and its W end is buttressed. Apart from the return of N side-wall (L 1.5m), no visible surface trace of it survives. An overgrown pointed lancet window is evident in the E gable and there is an aumbry below and to the N of it. A single-light window towards the E end of the S wall is blocked up. The OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 611-15) refer to an internal gable between the ‘church and an apartment, which was attached to the west end’ which suggests the former presence of living quarters at this end of the church. No visible surface trace of this wall was noted as the interior of the church has been
used for burial. Numerous architectural fragments from the church mark burials in the surrounding graveyard (GA104-148008-). (McCaffrey 1952, 231, no. 78)

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 3 March 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.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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