Church

The National Monuments Service's description

Within the SE quadrant of a possible early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA108-076003-). Described in the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 61-2) as a rectangular church (c. 19m E-W; c. 7m N-S), probably of medieval date. There was 'a large breach’ in the middle of the S wall, which probably indicates the position of the original doorway. An illustration of the W gable shows ‘two rectangular windows of the lancet form’. One window is at a higher level than the other, suggesting the presence of a loft at this end of the building. The greater parts of N and S side-walls then survived though E gable was ‘completely down’. All that now survives is a featureless stretch of the N side-wall (L 9.1m; H 2.65m; T 0.8m). It is constructed of irregularly laid roughly coursed mortared limestone blocks. A graveyard (GA108-076002-) surrounds it.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 17 February 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.