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Chapel

Killeenadeema West, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Chapel, Killeenadeema West, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Killeenadeema West
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Old R.C. Chapel
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.16441, -8.57451
SMR number
GA115-031002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In the W sector of a graveyard (GA115-031001-) containing a medieval church (GA115-031----) as well as a 19th-century Catholic church (GA115-031003-). Indicated on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map an L-shaped building aligned ENE-WSW with the NNW-SSE leg extending off its ENE end (L c. 12m on both axes). No visible surface trace survives and modern headstone now occupy this part of the graveyard.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 25 February 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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