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Church

Kilbeacanty, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Kilbeacanty, 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
Kilbeacanty
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Church (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.06472, -8.77380
SMR number
GA123-053----

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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 low-lying grassland near the S limits of Kilbeacanty village. At least two phases of construction are evident in this ruined rectangular medieval church (16.9m E-W; 6.6m N-S). The W gable and both side-walls survive but only the returns of E gable are evident. A clear break in the masonry of the side-walls is visible and that to the W of it (L 12m) is almost semi-cyclopean in nature while that to the E (L 6.3m)
consists of smaller boulders. The main architectural features, all of which are found in S side-wall, include a blocked-up doorway near the W end, a robbed-out window, to the E of which there is a single-light ogee-headed window. Next to this, near the SE corner a small rectangular recess, probably an aumbry, is visible. Two very narrow openings are also visible in the W gable at a height of c. 5m. (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 249-50)

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 19 February 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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