Church

The National Monuments Service's description

On a SW-facing slope in undulating grassland. This very poorly preserved medieval church (12.8m E-W; 7.3m N-S; wall T 0.8m) is constructed of fairly regularly coursed and mortared limestone. It was described in the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 2, 54-8) as a ruined old church - the N and E walls of which were 'perfectly level with the ground'; the W end of the S wall survived to its original height and the remaining section of the W gable survived to the height of the S side-wall. The only architctural features noted were a pointed doorway in the S wall and the remains of a broken window at the top of the W gable. All that now survives is a short isolated section of the S wall (L 3.3m; H 2.5m), the N end of the W gable (L 5.1m; H 1.5m) and the W end of the N wall (L 3.4m). Grassed-over foundations indicate the line of the E gable as well as the E end of the S wall.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 30 March 2020

The following image has been uploaded: GA108-181----_02.jpg

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.