Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ceathrú An Lisín, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ceathrú An Lisín
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilcanonagh Church (in Ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilcanonagh Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.08059, -9.57552
- SMR number
- GA119-087001-
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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
Close to shore on E side of Inis Meáin. Cill Cheannanach is a well-preserved E. Chr. oratory (E-W; L 5.19m, Wth 3.95m ext.) with a trabeate doorway in W gable and a triangular-headed window in E one. Projecting corbels survive on three of the corners. It stands at N end of graveyard (GA119-087002-), which also contains a crudely dressed triangular holed stone (possibly the endstone of a slab shrine; GA119-087004-). There is a holy well (GA119-087003-) to NNW. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 318, 407-9; Anon. 1886a, 196; Westropp 1895, 268-70)
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
The monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 42.
References
Westropp, T.J. 1895 Proceedings: Aran Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 25, 250-74.
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.
Anon. 1886a Antiquities of the Aran Islands, County of Galway. The Irish Builder, July 1886, 196-7, 301.
Nearby in the register
- Shrineunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.