Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Chapel
Skecoor, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skecoor
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- R.C. Chapel and Altar (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21839, -8.25191
- SMR number
- GA107-176001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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
On a hummock in gently undulating grassland. Shown on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an L-shaped building that was aligned N-S, with the shorter leg extending westwards off the S end, and named 'R.C. Chapel & Altar'. All that survives is a shallow rectangular hollow (13m E-W, 8m N-S), along the W side of which a short stretch of wall (L >3m, H 0.5m), constructed of small irregularly cut stones, could possibly be the last vestiges of the chapel. According to the landowner this was a penal chapel. No visible surface trace of the altar (GA107-176001-) survives.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 3 April 2020
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.