Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Caherwalter, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherwalter
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Bridgets Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Bridgets Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.20089, -8.55998
- SMR number
- GA105-049002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Within a possible early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA105-049001-). This conserved rectangular medieval church (>14.35m E-W; 6.8m N-S; wall T 0.88m) is in fair condition. The E gable and both of the side-walls are intact but no trace of the W gable survives. There is a reconstructed pointed-arch doorway in the S wall and a partly robbed-out two-light window with the remains of a cusped ogee head and a decorated spandrel in the E gable. A displaced spandrel from it is on the window sill. No trace survives of the windows in the N and S side-walls as described in the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. II, 228-9). A holy well (GA105-049004-) lies c. 115m to the SW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.