Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Mhuirbhigh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12992, -9.74957
- SMR number
- GA110-049003-
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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
On a slight rise immediately to S of Port Mhuirbhigh, Inis Mór. No visible trace survives of 'the indistinct foundations of a church' noted by OS Letters and shown on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a rectangular building aligned roughly N-S. Its designation on the maps as 'Aharla' also suggests the former presence of a cemetery: the site is known locally as Cill Mhuirbhigh (Robinson 1980). O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 396; Westropp 1895, 260)
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
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.