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Church

Inis Oírr, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Inis Oírr, 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
Inis Oírr
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
St. Gobnets Church
Latest-edition OS map
St Gobnets Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.06593, -9.52925
SMR number
GA120-002001-

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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

On N side of island overlooking the shoreline to N. This Nat. Mon. is a conserved E. Chr. church (E-W; L 3.93m, Wth 2.73m) known locally as Cill Ghobnait. There is a trabeate doorway in W gable and a round-headed window in E gable. A cross-inscribed stone (GA120-002012-) is visible above the arch of the window. Within the interior, below the window, is an altar with a cross-inscribed slab (GA120-002006-). The letters ST and G on it presumably mean Saint Gobnet. Two bullauns lie to W (GA120-002004-) and SSE (GA120-002005-) of the church. Two plain, rectangular, drystone leachta (GA120-002007-, GA120-002008-) abut its S wall and a third leacht (GA120-002009-) stands 15m to SE in the graveyard (GA120-002002-). Two separate lengths of stony banks extend to NW and S of the church. A clochan (GA120-002003-) c. 25m to the WSW is also associated. The curving graveyard wall, which encloses all these features, may follow the line of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA120-002011-). (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 431-3; Mason 1938, 197-8; Westropp 1895, 272)

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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Updated by: Olive Alcock

Date of revised upload: 21 January 2016

This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 41.

References

Mason, T.H. 1938 The antiquarian remains of Inisheer, Aran, Co. Galway. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 68, 196-200.

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.

Nearby in the register

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

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