Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kilbeacanty, County Galway, Ireland
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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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
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.