Church

The National Monuments Service's description

In a slight hollow 180m NW of Teampall na Naomh (GA110-073001-). This Nat. Mon. is known locally as Teampall Mac Duach. Three construction phases are evident: (a) an E. Chr. oratory (E-W; L 5.7m, Wth 4.4m) with antae and a trabeate doorway at W; (b) a chancel added at E (L 4.8m, Wth 3.85m), its arch inserted between original antae; (c) battlemented parapets added to top of N and S walls of chancel. The nave is lit by two windows in S wall, the chancel by a window in S wall and a transitional E window. There is a slab with an animal motif on the outer face of wall at NW corner. A cross-inscribed pillar (GA110-044005-) stands to W (Higgins 1987, vol. 2, 374, no. 94), a pillar-stone (GA110-077----) to N, and a holy well (GA110-044003-) to SSW. There is also a possible souterrain (GA110-044004-) in the vicinity. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 379-83; Westropp 1895, 259-60; Leask 1955, Vol. 1, 66)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).

Date of upload: 05 August 2010

This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 43.

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.

Westropp, T.J. 1895 Proceedings: Aran Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 25, 250-74.

Higgins, J.G. 1987 The Early Christian cross slabs, pillar stones and related monuments of County Galway, Ireland, 2 vols. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 375. Oxford.

Leask, H.G. 1955 (Reprint 1977 and 1987) Irish churches and monastic buildings, vol. I. The first phases of the Romanesque. Dundalk. Dundalgan Press.