Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Mhuirbhigh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Templenaneeve
- Latest-edition OS map
- Templenaneeve (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.13004, -9.75666
- SMR number
- GA110-073001-
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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
Near centre of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA110-073002-). Known locally as Teampall na Naomh, this Nat. Mon. is a much-ruined and conserved E. Chr. oratory (E-W; L 4.75m, Wth 3.45m). Only the lower portions of the walls survive. There is a robbed doorway in N wall and the base of single-light window in E. A quoin at SW corner bears an incised Latin cross: possibly a reused cross slab (GA110-073004-). (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 383; Westropp 1985, 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
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.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.