Church

The National Monuments Service's description

At the N end of an irregularly shaped graveyard (GA114-097003-) in gently undulating pastureland. This very poorly preserved rectangular church (24m E-W; 9.8m N-S; wall T 1.25m) is probably of medieval date. On initial inspection in October 1982, all that survived was the overgrown W half of the N side-wall and W gable, as well as most of the S side-wall. It was built of well-cut and mortared limestone blocks. A doorway was evident towards the W end of the S wall along with a window further to the E; both had been robbed of most of their cut stone. The OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 504-5) describe the doorway as being ‘in the curvilineally [sic] pointed style’ and the window as ‘pointed’. A chamfered mullion, reused as a grave-marker, may indicate that it was of two lights. On re-inspection in January 2010, a c. 8m length of the E end of the S wall had fallen inwards into the church, which was densely overgrown with ivy. A carved window head fragment was noted lying at the E end of the S wall. A settlement cluster (GA114-097002-) is associated. (Holt 1910, 138)

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 19 February 2020

The following images have been uploaded:
GA114-097001-_01.jpg View from S wall, from S
GA114-097001-_03.jpg View of collapse at E end of S wall
GA114-097001-_05.jpg View of N wall, from N

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.

Holt, E.W.L. 1910 An abridged transcript of the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to parishes in, or partly in, the Barony of Dunkellin Co. Galway. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 6, 123-69.