Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Church Island, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Church Island
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ch. (in Rns.)
- Coordinates
- 53.07426, -8.24473
- SMR number
- GA126-045----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the highest point of Church Island, which lies c. 200m offshore at the N end of Lough Derg. The island was probably once part of the demesne lands of the ruined 19th-century house (GA126-052----) located on the mainland, c. Ikm to the NNE. This church (9.2m E-W; 5.35m N-S; wall T 0.85m), which is poorly preserved, is constructed of a mixture of large and small randomly coursed and mortared limestone. Apart from a few dressed and squared quoinstones on the SW and NW corners, no other dressed stonework is visible. The N and S side-walls, and the W gable survive but only the central section of the E gable (L 1.3m; H 1.2m) is standing. A gap (Wth 1.7m) in the S wall marks the location of the doorway. Traces of a robbed-out window are visible to its E. The masonry and surviving quoinstones suggest a late medieval date.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.