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Church

Church Island, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Church Island, 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
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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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 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

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

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